We all like UNDO perhaps more than any other AutoCAD command. (don't you wish Life had undos? Of course you do, if not, yer lyin') Well, if you ever get the Must enter UNDO END when trying to undo, just pick our ESC button on the HydraCAD Utilities toolbar, and that will do the UNDO…

If you are sending us, or a coworker a drawing for them to AutoList or diagnose – how do you send the listing tag setup (the top 5 FIGs)? The good news is that you don't have to , they are part of the drawing as long as you are on 50.4/51.4 or newer. From…

From a customer (Aaron at Dalmatian), via Bill, my coworker: "I spoke to you about an hour ago regarding the ugly mesh around all of the 3d objects when setting the viewport shade plot to 'hidden' with the model otherwise set to '2dwireframe'.  I’ve figured this one out and thought I’d share it with you:…

Many times customers have trouble registering their AutoCADs and need additional help. Unfortunately we don't have too many resources to draw on, since AutoCAD holds the keys to the registration vault, so to speak. So the next step is to call Autodesk, and therein lies the problems. Years ago Autodesk proudly and prominently displayed phone…

Does it take 20 minutes for you to copy and paste drawing entities? The reason is that probably have a bazillion SCALE LISTS as part of your drawing, thanks to all those that are parts of each XREF you have attached. Type in SCALELISTEDIT and pick Reset to clear them out. Note: If you reattach…

Many people use Bayspace to insert sprinkler heads and connect them with branch lines. Most don't know that you can also have Bayspace draw one pipe from the first head to the last head or draw no pipes at all. This option is on the second dialog box as seen below.   The One Pipe…

The question now arises, what machine to buy for all this 3D stuff. This from one of our customers “We just ordered 12 machines: They’ll all be 64 bit with Windows 7 Ultimate loaded… 9 gigs of ram, 10,000 rpm Raptor hard drives, and NVidia 260 video cards with 1.8 gigs of ram on them”…

AutoCAD lets you modify your menus to add toolbars, modify them, make Workspace changes and so forth. BUT, our installs and updates will overwrite them, so you REALLY should save those changes. This is how you do that. In AutoCAD, workspaces, menu and toolbars are stored in a menu file with the extension .CUIX file.…

Sorry for the long absence. I was just helping wrap up to large projects (hint, hint) that are finally done! News about those next week. Some of you miss the old (pre-2007) double-click behavior whereas you got a full dialogue of attributes when you double-clicked on a block. AutoCAD changed this some time ago, but…

Don't use Format->Layer Tools->Layer Delete on any of Hydratec's stuff. I fact, I don't recommend using it in architect stuff, either. Here's why – besides deleting everything on the selected layer and the layer name itself, it also redefines all blocks that have a foot in that layer and remove those parts that do. An…