HawsEDC
Engineering, Drafting, and Computing

OVERVIEW

The HawsEDC tools are over 300 AutoCAD custom commands optimized to balance simplicity against speed, ease of use against ease of learning. The commands range from the utterly simple and unoriginal quick key aliases, to quick and amazing but simple and common tools, to unique and ingenious HawsEDC tools, to special civil engineering tools, to heavy duty applications.

Here are some examples:

• Simple Quick Keys: like L for LINE, A for ARC, and O for OFFSET
• Amazing, but Common Timesavers: like OO for Offset to Current Layer, EE for Edit just about anything textual, function keys for osnaps.
• Unique and Ingenious HawsEDC Power Tools: like NEWANG that aligns or rotates everything in a selection set independently, SSXPRO that creates selection sets based on any complex criteria, and text tools like PRESUF (prefix/suffix), ADD (add one string to another), CS (copy string), & CA (copy attributes).
• Civil Engineering Tools: like contour volumes, slope crow's foot, station ticks for centerlines, bearing and distance labels, and perpendicular sewer tap with wye,
• Heavy Duty Applications: like Bubble Notes Manager, Profile Drafter, and Utility Pipes

The HawsEDC tools all conform to your text, scale, and layer standards. For sizes and scales they follow the AutoCAD dimension variables. For text they use the current style. For layers, they use a layers file you can edit.

GETTING STARTED

Copy all the HawsEDC files to a HawsEDC folder and add that folder to the top of the AutoCAD Support Files Search Path under the Files tab of the Preferences or Options dialog box in AutoCAD. Then open a drawing and type EDCMENU and NOTESMENU to load the two pull-down menus.

You should see two new pull-down menus added to AutoCAD--EDC and NOTES. Explore them. Especially helpful for new users are the online help, with it's search feature, and the help tips displayed for each menu item on AutoCAD's status line at the bottom of the AutoCAD window. Both help and the help tips give the default keyboard command for each tool.

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