The H-Factor

Reducing Entropy

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Unblocking a Group of Files

After downloading a file, it is often Blocked. You must right-click on it, pick Properties and then check the Unblock item: But doing a dozen or more files gets old, real fast. I just learned a way to Unblock a batch of files at once. It involves using PowerShell, a Microsoft tool that is a…

Adding Hanger Types to HydraLIST

If you want to use a new type of hanger, or are a fab shop that gets a job from a contractor that uses a hanger type that you do not have, it is easy to add that new hanger type to your own machine. A hanger is an assembly, and an assembly is just…

Welcome

Recently our previous blog service (Typepad) ended their business – so, we have a new home. It will take a bit to get images back and displaying properly, but we are working on it! Final pageview count of original Typepad blog: 387,232

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Category: General

  • This question was posed by a customer and frequent blog reader. Here's the list HydraLIST: \HES\Hydlist\Ver50\Data\Setup – If you take the whole folder (not subfolders), you will always be safe. If you are the one doing the editing and want to copy these to another machine, then sort by date and just take the ones…

  • 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,…

  • Art had a pretty busy week with five posts in five days, so I thought I’d chime in to give him a bit of a break. A question I often get asked, is from users who would like to share their HydraCALC and HydraLIST printouts with non-Hydratec users. HydraVIEW offers the option to save the…

  • Being a first post, I don’t want to go overboard saying "Welcome to my new blog". So I won’t. You are welcome to comment on any topics posted here, but please keep it on topic, don’t be nasty and remember that this is not a Hydratec support site. Support questions should be directed to support@hydracad.com.…