Hide gasket whiskers
These whiskers are placed on the GASKET layer. Turning off this layer will hide the graphics for gaskets.

Hide center-lines
To hide existing center-lines in the drawing, turn off the CLINE layer. To disable drawing center-lines during fitting insertion, use IDS-PIPE >> TOGS >> AutoCLINE from the pull-down menus and make sure it is unchecked.

Does IDS-PIPE have bushings?
At this time, IDS-PIPE does not have bushings.

Inserting short-radius bends
Select IDS-PIPE >> Set >> S.R. ELLS from the pull-down menus to turn on short-radius elbows.

There are question marks (?) when viewing a drawing
The machine that is viewing the drawing needs to have the three SHX files; IDSSIM.SHX, IDSTXT.SHX, and IDSCOM.SHX copied to C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 200x\Fonts folder. These SHX files can be found in any of the FlexCAD product folders (i.e. C:\Idswin\ISO, C:\Idswin\FLO, etc).

Unknown command error when trying to use FlexCAD
Type CONFIG on the command line and hit enter. On the System tab, the check-box option for 'Load acad.lsp with every drawing' needs to be checked [view screenshot]. After this is done, re-open the drawing.

Using custom layer properties and linetype/plot settings
Open C:\Idswin\PIP\SYM\PIPENEW.DWG and make the desired changes before saving. This is the prototype drawing that IDS-PIP uses to load all of its layer/drawing settings.

Fitting nodes are not showing up to snap to
Go to IDS-PIPE >> TOGS >> Fitt Node from the pull-down menus and make sure it is checked. This places nodes on all the connection points for the fittings.