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Using a Non-Standard Pipe Type in HydraCALC
A customer called today asking how to enter a 1″ black plastic underground pipe for the calc. This particular situation sounded unique enough that I did not tell him to add that pipe type to our database, as I would have if he expected to see this pipe type used repeatedly. I told him to…
Using the Hydratec Software Download Area
Hydratec uses ShareFile to distribute our software installs and updates. New customers, or those without access, must request access to be able to get at these downloads. Access is only available to customers with a Hydratec subscription or those on an update plan. You can access the download area and request access by picking the…
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Yep. It’s Springtime again. Between The Lines – 2009 Lynn Allen’s Autodesk Blog Heidi Hewitt Autodesk Blog Cad Panacea When? No date set There will be no direct upgrades from 2005 or earlier to 2009
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I just had a customer who noticed that when he went to a Layout tab that all of his objects were gray. AutoCAD was apparently applying his Plot Style (Hydragray) to the objects in the Layout (and no, he wasn’t doing a Plot Preview). What to do? Apparently (after much Googling) there is an option…
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I was visiting a new customer in New York City earlier this month, and this is what was in the design manager’s office: .Yep – that is four monitors, all hooked up to the same machine via one video card. I had HydraCALC, HydraLIST, HydraCAD and 3D fittings all up on different screens. It was…
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More and more often we are hearing from customers that cannot submit a drawing file that uses ‘foreign’ fonts, just those that AutoCAD ships with. We added an option in the HydraCAD updates from a few months ago that can fix this for you. Pick HcadTool->Modify->Attribute->Expand Fractions or type in EXF This will start a…
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This from Tuesday’s Dow Jones’ Market Watch website: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Are you in the habit of choosing the "remember my password" option when signing into online accounts? Storing passwords can be a useful tool for those of us without perfect recall. The trouble is, eventually your computer will prompt you to re-enter the…
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From a question posed by a customer: Question: Is there a way to lock and password protect drawing layers so I can email them to someone and them not be able to change the drawing. Also is there a easy and preferably “free” way to make a drawing into a pdf. I use primopdf for…
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Ever need to the layer of all the attributes inside a block? Try: MODIFY > OBJECT > Attribute > Block Attribute Manager > select the block > EDIT > Go to the PROPERTIES Tab > Change the layer name > OK > APPLY Thanks to Robert at Northstar for this one Also, If you need…
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Some great Google stuff from Joe Oliver: Google Is a Calculator When you can’t be troubled to reach over and pick up the handheld calculator sitting on your desk, you can use Google as a high-tech web-based calculator. All you have to do is enter your equation or formula into the standard Google search box,…
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Many (most?) of you may have run into the problem where you use Windows Explorer to search a file for text the YOU KNOW IS IN THERE BUT $%^@# WINDOWS CAN’T FIND IT – grrrrrrr Here is how you get it to do that, straight from Microsoft (method 2): 1. Click Start, and then click…
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It’s been a while, not because I am lazy but we have a lot (LOT) going on here right now. More about that in a month or so! Plus I’ve been traveling to Chicago, Boise, Idaho and Boston lately Need to convert a 2007 drawing to 2004? It’s easy (and free) and you don’t even…
The H-Factor 