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…
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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…
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We have long been able to convert drawings that are made in our competitors software into ours. The conversion are pretty good (if I say so myself), but all have some limitation due to the way each package creates objects. As a rule – this is the procedure to follow: 1. Start a new drawing using…
HydraCAD has a command called Change item Colors. It is found right after Pretty Pipes on the Cleanup toolbar. What does it do? It lets you assign colors to different parts of your drawing. It is run after you run Pretty Pipes, hence it’s location on that toolbar. You can assign three additional colors to…
While I was training a customer in New Castle, PA last week a question came up that I thought had long been answered. By the mere fact it was asked showed how wrong I was. They had trouble shipping their drawings to their engineers because the engineers could not see our 1/2 and 1/4 symbols.…
Does anyone have any experience with any of the PDF to DWG converters out there? I have not been able to find any reviews of the half dozen or so converters that came up in a Google search. The ones I have found are: AutoDWGAnyDWGaidecadpdf2cad These are all about $180. Sounds like a little cartel…
A customer emailed today with the following question: "We do a lot of work in the field, doing lots of measuring and drawing/checking the buildings where we are working. I would like to be able to enter the data we generate directly instead of copying to paper and then copying from there into AutoCAD back…
You wouldn't be the first (or last). It helps to think of an armover as having three parts: A. The 'Up' piece (riser nipple) B. The Arm piece C. The Drop piece Item C – The Drop piece is already handled because Drops already go into a separate branch line section in HydraLIST named…
Autodesk has advanced programming topics that are recorded and can be downloaded and viewed on their Developer Center site. The site lists upcoming classes (fee based, free in some cases). A couple of weeks after those classes take place, you can see a recording of the class. Put on your geek hat for these!
Logitech makes nice mice. The problem is that they are configured like MS mice when shipped. This always causes problems with the Wheel and Panning in AutoCAD. This from the great website: CAD Forum Turn off any special mouse wheel settings with the mouse icon in the Windows Control Panel. Under the Buttons…
A had a customer call recently that didn’t like that AutoCAD displayed a tooltip when drawing a line with ORTHO on (see below) To turn this off: Go into OPTIONS. Pick the Drafting tab and uncheck the box on the right that says "Display AutoTrack Tooltip"
Need a handy tool for editing attributes within all blocks at the same time? AutoCAD has a great tool built right in – BATTMAN You can get at all the defined blocks in the drawing that have attributes, and you can get at all the atts within a block. You can change all kinds of…
The H-Factor 