It is possible to automatically save a 2004 version of a drawing every time you hit SAVE in 2007, but you need an add-on to do it. DUALSAVE.ARX is the add-on. 1. Download the DUALSAVE.ARX from our website at this address and save it to your H40\PROG\CAD2007 folder2. In AutoCAD, pick Tools, Load Application…3. Navigate…

For those of you still using digitizers (and it may only be one of you and you know who you are), you may have found that there are no default tablet commands with V45. We do, however, ship a separate tablet menu that you can transfer into the main HydraCAD menu so you can merrily…

In AutoCAD 2008 some of you might have noticed that you do not get a Startup dialog box and there is no longer a setting for it in the Options. Great, huh? In their wisdom, AutoCAD removed that ‘feature’ and now we are relegated to typing it at the command prompt, so type in STARTUP…

Sometimes after you AutoList you might find that your listing tags look rather underfed. The main reason for this is that the Style BOLD has been redefined (or was defined differently in the first place). The solution is to define BOLD using the STYLE command, make it look like below and pick Apply:

A common complaint from users of the newer versions of AutoCAD is that hitting the Up and Down arrows now show coordinates instead of the last distance typed in. If this bugs you as much as it does me, try this: Type in INPUTHISTORYMODE and Enter 0 – You will now be able to recall…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…