Author: admin
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Rules for shop welding Elbows to Stair balustrades
Shop Welding Elbows. If the pipe is going up then do not weld the elbow to the pipe. Leave extra length on the pipe. Fabricator will cut at site and weld. (Make it slip joint) If the pipe is horizontal then you can weld at one end. See images
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Why Bubble Deck?
Bubble Deck – What’s so good about it? It’s fast, really fast. If you can build something quicker, than translates into making money quicker. There’s a premium on speed. Less manpower Less manpower on site. That means less potential problems to deal with. Which eventually translates into money. Generally speaking, the problems and costs…
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c# .Net Autocad plugin – “Hello world” Walk through
There’s not much out there in the way of introductions. You’d have to wade through some manuals and it can be tedious. A simple walk through of how to get started. You would do well to record it at 1.5-x2 playback speed. Autocad .net c# Plug in – Hello World Example from Tek1 on…
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Checking the type of an Entity? (AutoCAD .net)
Ok, so you’ve got a bunch of entities in a collection. You only want to deal with circles. You need to iterate through the collection and consider only the circles. But how will you identify the circles from the other objects. Casting. You can cast Entity en = en as Circle And then you…
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Get SelectionFilter by block Name
It is very common that you will need to create selection filters for different types of blocks. Why repeat yourself? There is a very simple utility that I wrote that is amazingly handy for solving this very issue. Best part is that it accepts wildcards, so you can search for block references which, for…
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Convert ObjectID[] to ObjectIDCollections!
When dealing with selection sets we can obtain the object ids of the objects contained within. The method though, returns an array. But what if we want an ObjectIDCollection? We can simply pass the ObjectID[] array into the ObjectIDCollection constructor. Simple. The last thing you want to do is iterate through the…
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Tek1 Now Drawing Bubble Deck!
Tek1 – Now has Bubble Deck Capabilities Bubble Deck After sending our staff overseas for an intensive Bubble Deck training camp, and after the development and preparation of tools to handle Bubble Deck detailing, Tek1 is pleased to announce that in addition to stand panel detailing, Tek1 has started to draw Bubble Deck slabs. This…
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Program to supersede and manage hundreds of drawings received via transmittal
What is the problem? Superseding documents is a real pain – a great difficulty. Manually clicking and deleting files: it’s very time consuming and error prone. What if you miss an important drawing? It’s very, very easy when you get 20-30 new drawings every two days to sort through. In 3 months you’ll have a…
