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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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CTB vs STB

A Question today from a customer:

Where do I switch from plotstyles
ending with *.stb to *.ctb?

Answer, from Greg here at Hydratec:

The normal HydraCAD
template is set to use “ctb” files. Load this template for
ctb

The “Hydracad_stb”
template is set to use “stb” files. Load this template for
stb

Next, there is a setting in
the AutoCAD OPTIONS – This is from AutoCAD 2007

Stb

Pick the Tools pulldown, then pick Options

Pick the Plot and Publish
tab

At the bottom right
pick Plot Style Table Setting

Note: with this setting
the Hydracad_stb template should load the stb files for you to
see.

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