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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From a Customer: We often get architects drawings that are drawn under a angle, we save these drawings as world and then create a new view (1) where we rotate the drawing that it becomes in a horizontal layout on our screen, this makes it easier to work with. Our Solution: Don’t rotate the drawing,…
How do you save user drawing files? How often do you back them up, and how? Do you back them up to a server? run tape backups? Please share you experiences since a number of customers have asked how others do it. One of our customers does it by changing his Automatic Save File Location…
I got a request form a customer today asking: "If I am using AutoCAD 2014 can one of the estimators put 2012 in his machine so he can open and preview cad drawings sent to him? If not, is there a CAD viewer program available for cheap somewhere?" Yep! There are actually three options- all…
I consider myself a pretty good touch typist, but it never fails that at some point in the day, I’ll press the F1 key when I attempted to press ESC. It could be my subconscious trying to tell me I need some’ help’, but I choose to ‘suppress’ that notion. Anyway, I wouldn’t be the…
Today we got a drawing that would crash because the designer had duplicate pipes right on top of each other. There is a quick way to check for and fix this. The AutoCAD Express command OVERKILL will delete duplicate objects, among other things. Either type in OVERKILL at the command prompt or pick it from…
Almost daily I get calls from customers saying that when they type in Open they don't get a dialog box but a command line asking for a file name, or their pipe sizes come in with the word -LENGTH- instead fo the actual length. AutoCAD variables are usually at fault. Here are the most common…
We hear from a number of customers who have trouble with one of three related things in AutoCAD 2006: 1. A regen causes machine to lock up2. Switching between layout tabs causes machine to lock up3. Previewing a plot causes machine to lock up While these three things are not limited to the 2006 version…
The H-Factor 