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Using a Non-Standard Pipe Type in HydraCALC

A customer called today asking how to enter a 1″ black plastic underground pipe for the calc. This particular situation sounded unique enough that I did not tell him to add that pipe type to our database, as I would have if he expected to see this pipe type used repeatedly. I told him to…

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Using the Hydratec Software Download Area

Hydratec uses ShareFile to distribute our software installs and updates. New customers, or those without access, must request access to be able to get at these downloads. Access is only available to customers with a Hydratec subscription or those on an update plan. You can access the download area and request access by picking the…

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Graphic Violence

We hear from a number of customers who have trouble with one of three related things in AutoCAD 2006:

1. A regen causes machine to lock up
2. Switching between layout tabs causes machine to lock up
3. Previewing a plot causes machine to lock up

While these three things are not limited to the 2006 version of AutoCAD, they do seem more prevalent on that release. Inevitably these problems all point to the graphics card. Either there is not enough memory on it or more likely the card is not compatible with AutoCAD 2006 or later.

An easy way to verify if your card is okay with AutoCAD is to visit their Graphics Hardware List and look up your card to see if it is fully approved. If it is not approved then I recommend that you get a new graphics card. Which one? any one that is Autodesk Certified will do you well. The graphics card we are using on our newer machines is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 and yes, it does work well.

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  1. LarryH Avatar
    LarryH

    We use the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 and had problems until I disabled the nView Desktop Manager Features that came with the graphics card. This actually gave problems with many programs, all is well now.

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  2. Arthur Dove Avatar
    Arthur Dove

    Thanks, Larry

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