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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 that time of the year again… AutoCAD 2008 was released on March 23rd, but not with very much fanfare, in my opinion. The drawing format is the same as 2007 as are most of the commands so this should be an easy transition for all. Especially us, since V45 has been expanded…
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Middle Ages Tech Support (YouTube) Enjoy
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We get asked this occasionally. A user I talked to today had this idea: 1. Open the drawing in AutoCAD 2006 or later2. Save As a 2004 dxf3. Start from scratch and Insert the dxf. Save the drawing4. Start a new drawing using template and insert the scratch drawing Thanks Brian from Hampshire Fire! PS…
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SMaRTools is now available for pre-release downloading on our company website! What is pre-release? That means we have not formally announced it via email newsletter. It should be stable, but just in case there is a problem we would rather a few dozen customers have it than a few thousand. What is SMaRTools? Click to…
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Many of you have been setting a Viewport scale in Paper Space using the Zoom XP option. While valid, there is a much easier way. 1. Click on the Viewport to highlight it, then right-click and pick Properties.2. Find the Misc section in the palette that shows up3. Find the Standard scale item in the…
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Sorry for the lack of posting, I was on vacation last week. We are making good progress on Vista compatibility with our software, and I think you guys will really like what we have done, once we do it. That’s all I am saying about that right now. AutoCAD has announced that AutoCAD 2008 will…
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Well, things ain’t great as far as Vista is concerned: AutoCAD 2007 will not install (message says Vista not supported)AutoCAD 2006 will install but not runAutoCAD2005 will install with errors and not run So the answer is No Vista until who knows when. Certainly not with AutoCAD 2006 or earlier. Maybe there will be a…
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Flexible heads are still relatively new and few people know how to use them in a drawing, so here goes: Please note that we only have the brand name Flexhead in our database at this point. 1. Put some symbol representing a sprinkler head in the location where the sprinkler head is actually going to…
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Quick Firefox Tip of The Day – If you are on a website and want to open another browser window when you click on a link rather than having your current window switch to that content, click on the link using the middle mouse button. That will open the linked page in a new tab
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A customer just called and said he wanted to copy some of the layout tabs from another drawing into his new drawing. I didn’t know how to do this so I asked Alan here what to do. Here is how you do this: 1. Start a New drawing using our template2. Use the AutoCAD INSERT…
The H-Factor 