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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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RIP AutoCAD 2000

If you are still on AutoCAD 2000, it’s way past time to get off of it and upgrade. That goes for 2000i and 2002, too.

We are adding new features and functionality to the current versions of HydraCAD (V43, 44 and 45) and some of these features do not translate back to V42 (2000).

One of these is the ability to color code sloping pipe, a feature which is found inside the Size Pipe dialog box. Drawings sized using V43 or newer and then opened with V42 will get a fixnump error when attempting to size pipe in that version.

The solution to this is to start a new drawing in V42 and insert the broken drawing into it. The real solution is to stop using V42.

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