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MTEXT - Missing the Toolbar?
Where is my AutoCAD 2011!?!
Mechanical Tees - Fitting Size or Hole Size?
Denoting Sloping Pipe (such as in a stairwell)
Locking up Your AutoCAD Drawing so no one else can change it
Diagnosing AutoCalc/AutoList Errors Part 5 - Model 'Falsely' Reports Defline Errors
Adding or Removing an Inch Mark (") to Pipe Diameters
Cool 2011 Feature #7 - Add or Remove Vertices to a Polyline
Overriding Object Snaps in HydraCAD - AutoCAD's Temporary Overrides
Diagnosing AutoCalc/AutoList Errors Part 4 - Water Supply Test Point not Connected
Smarter Ways to Copy and Paste in AutoCAD
Down and Dirty Block Inventory - The AutoCAD BCOUNT command
Cool 2011 Feature #6 - Parametrics, or How to Sloppy Build the Perfect Rectangle
Cool 2011 Feature #5 - Creating New Objects by Selecting Existing Ones
Diagnosing AutoCalc/AutoList Errors Part 3 - Not all Pipes Make it to HydraCALC
Cool 2011 Feature #4 - Object (or Layer) Transparency
Diagnosing AutoCalc/AutoList Errors Part 2 - Unable to Make it to HydraCALC
Cool 2011 Feature #3 - Isolate or Hide Objects
Cool 2011 Feature #2 - Selection Cycling
Cool 2011 Feature #1 - Select Similar
See AutoCAD 2011 and Revit in Action
Diagnosing AutoCalc/AutoList Errors Part 1 - Unknown Fittings
Inserting a Head or Riser Nipple on a Line or Main
Getting Your AutoCAD 2011 Manuals
Viewing Revit Files Without Buying Revit
Updating Your V51 Icon To 2011
Renaming Multiple Files One At A Time
Tired of 'Must Enter UNDO END'?
AutoList - Sending the Listing Tag Setup with the Drawing
Speeding Up When Booting Up
Plotting A 3D Riser Detail Properly
Contacting Autodesk
Fixing Really Long Copy and Pastes
Bayspace and Drawing One Line or No Lines
What Machines to Buy Now?
Saving Your Menu Customizations
Upgrading to Windows 7
Changing Double-Click Behavior to Change Attribute Edit

LAYDEL - A Nasty AutoCAD that should never be used

Calculating With a Pump but No City Supply in HydraCALC

Letting HydraCAD Figure the Slope of Sloping Pipe

Autodesk Announces New Update Pricing Scheme for 2010

Changing Attribute Color, Height, Style and Rotation
Controlling Xref Fading in AutoCAD 2010
Changing the Size of Riser Nipples in V50/V51
Turning Your Library of Blocks into a Tool Palette
Getting the Mouse Wheel to Display the HydraCAD Cursor Menu
Using Overrides to list GOLs at Top or Bottom of Riser Nipples with V50
Transferring V45 Menu Setup/Workspaces to V50
Including 3D Riser Details in Your NavisWorks Model
Adding Blocks and Details to the Tool Palette
Purging Out All the Bad Stuff
Denoting a Peaked Roof with Multiple Pitches
Yet Even More About Sizing Armovers
Configuring 2009/2010/2011 to show words for ORTHO, SNAP, etc
Workspaces in Version 50
Sizing Armovers the Easy Way
QNEW: When AutoCAD Starts You in an Aggravating Template
Fix for Compile Error in Hidden Module / Visual Basic Errors
Getting Rid of a Bloated Scale List
Using an Irregularly Shaped Window to Select Objects
CPVC Internal Pipe Diameters
Submitting a 3D Model with Detailed Sprinklers and Couplings
Never Migrate Settings When Updating AutoCAD
A Couple of Tips on Preparing a Drawing for Plotting
Annotating SMaRT Drops
Stuck in Isolation (AutoCAD ISOLATE Command)
Join the Party! (AutoCAD JOIN Command)
Missing the Number Menu or Tablet Menu?
The Command Prompt and the Cursor Menu
A quick guide to saving Workspaces
Converting Competitors Drawings into HydraCAD Drawings
Coloring Existing Pipe Differently
Shipping HydraCAD Fonts
Converting a PDF to a DWG
Avoiding Paper Field-Checking
AutoCAD 2009 Performance and the Layer Palette
Don't Want to List Armovers?
Advanced AutoCAD Topics for Download
Making PAN Work with AutoCAD and Logitech Mouse
Flexheads - the New Generation
Converting Office 2007 Files
Tired of Tooltips?
Difficulty with Removing or Reinstalling AutoCAD?
Na na na na Na na na na BBATMAN!
Moving AutoCAD Licenses
Applying Plot Styles to Layouts
Converting a Drawing to use only Standard AutoCAD Fonts
PDF's and Locking Layers
Changing Attributes Within a Block
Converting AutoCAD drawings to previous versions
AutoCalcing with C=100 piping
Guide to Plotting: Using HydraCAD's Plot Styles
Intersections for Things that don't Intersect. Or do they?
Predefining Sprinkler Heads in Your Drawings
Trouble Moving Something?
Recovering a Lost Drawing
Running AutoCAD at Home as well as the Office
Eliminating Z-Coordinates Using DWFs
Creating MicroStation files from AutoCAD drawings
Shadowy Things Lurk in Layer Locking
Selecting Objects Using an Irregularly Shaped Window
Changing Layer Names for Submittal Purposes
Digitizers R Us
Starting up STARTUP
Using the Up Arrow to Recall Recent Input
Getting Rid of an AutoCAD Educational Stamp
Setting a Viewport Scale
Importing Paper Space Layouts From Another Drawing
CAD Manager Stuff I - Workspaces
CTB vs STB
AutoCAD History Part II
Objectively looking at Object Snaps
AutoCAD History Part I
Find, Find, Everywhere a Find...
Rotated Drawing?
Save Us
Viewing AutoCAD Drawings Without AutoCAD
ESC F1, F1 ESC
Using the Overkill Express Function
The Usual Suspects- Popular AutoCAD Setvars
Managing Multiple AutoCAD Seats

 

General Posts
For the old timers out there (like me) - 72 Old Computer Ads
About the New Data and Backup Files Created by the V50 Install
Subscribing to this blog
Create PDF Printouts of Calcs and Stocklists
Matching Gold Keys to a Computer
Firefox and Multiple Windows
How to retrieve lost passwords
Google Tips

 

HydraCALC Posts
Lost in Translation
Info Sheet Pressure and Flow
Shortcut Keys - Betcha Didn't Know...
Negative flows in a Loop or Grid
K-Factor Analysis
Why Use Input Types?
NFPA 2007 Hydraulic Printouts
Fast HydraCALC Input
Using your own logo on Hydraulics cover sheet
Darcy - Weisbach Who?

 

HydraLIST Posts
Mechanical Tees - Fitting Size or Hole Size?
Hanger Fabrication Notes
Obtaining Updated HydraLIST Manual Content
Autolisting Extra Threaded Outlets
Listing Duplicate Floors

 

Technology Posts
Creating Screen Captures
Zooooommmm - Graphic Cards
Tech Support in the Past
Remotely Accessing Hydratec Software
Run AutoCAD on a Mac? Yes You Can*
Multiple Monitors - Now THIS Would be nice...

 

Microsoft Posts
A Sordid Affair (Sort order in Windows Explorer)
Windows 7
Getting Explorer to Search All Files for Text
Resending Emails in Outlook 2007
Coloring Email Addresses