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  1. BigMike1970

    .catdrawing background

    Thank you Ferdo! Copy and paste worked.
  2. BigMike1970

    .catdrawing background

    Thanks brook203! I tried this and it didn't work. I'm attaching a jpg of what the background looks like. I had also went to edit/sheet Background. This only changes the color to a lite gray. We have received a file like this before and had to request the tool maker to change it and resend it to...
  3. BigMike1970

    .catdrawing background

    I received a .catdrawing from a tool maker. The background in the .catdrawing is black. How do I change it back to white so I can view it?
  4. BigMike1970

    Pipe thread definition for holes.

    Thank you Fernando! It worked the 1st time I put it in this time. Mike
  5. BigMike1970

    Pipe thread definition for holes.

    I have copied this in notepad and put it in my standards. When I try to apply the NPT definitions to a threaded hole it shows nothing in the thread description. Is there a certain way the .txt needs to be wrote out? Is it a problem that units are set to mm? I believe that it would auto change...
  6. BigMike1970

    Pipe thread definition for holes.

    I want to add NPT pipe thread definitions to my standards in V5R18. I have tried to add UNC and UNF.txt's in my standards with no luck.

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