The H-Factor

Getting Rid of Educational Stamp

We get asked this occasionally. A user I talked to today had this idea:

1. Open the drawing in AutoCAD 2006 or later
2. Save As a 2004 dxf
3. Start from scratch and Insert the dxf. Save the drawing
4. Start a new drawing using template and insert the scratch drawing

Thanks Brian from Hampshire Fire!

PS - I any of you have solved this any other way, please post your solutions

Get SMaRT

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 find out!

Do you need it? Maybe, and Yes.The driving force has been GCs who require coordination in 3D (even in NavisWorks.) The bonus is that even if that is not a requirement, SMaRTools can help make HydraCAD faster and easier because it makes figuring of hanger lengths, riser nipple, drops and head elevations obsolete.

It will install a second shortcut on your desktop which will load you into SMaRT. If you want to do things the old way, use your original shortcut.

Do the tutorial first. Why? Because we won't support you until you do :)

Setting a Viewport Scale

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 up
3. Find the Standard scale item in the list and select the scale you want!

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Much betterer...

Vista Latest

Sorry for the lack of posting, I was on vacation last week.

We are making good progress on Vista compatibility with our software, and I think you guys will really like what we have done, once we do it. That's all I am saying about that right now.

AutoCAD has announced that AutoCAD 2008 will be fully Vista compatible. they have also announced that they expect to have a Service Pack for AutoCAD 2007 sometime in April to make 2007 compatible (as I suspected - pat self on back). I think you will not see anything done to make 2006 or earlier work with Vista.

Since 2008 won't be out until late March/Early April and the lock driver is still a problem, we are still on track for our earlier estimate of May for full compatibility with Vista.