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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…
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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Month: January 2007
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Well, things ain’t great as far as Vista is concerned: AutoCAD 2007 will not install (message says Vista not supported)AutoCAD 2006 will install but not runAutoCAD2005 will install with errors and not run So the answer is No Vista until who knows when. Certainly not with AutoCAD 2006 or earlier. Maybe there will be a…
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Flexible heads are still relatively new and few people know how to use them in a drawing, so here goes: Please note that we only have the brand name Flexhead in our database at this point. 1. Put some symbol representing a sprinkler head in the location where the sprinkler head is actually going to…
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Quick Firefox Tip of The Day – If you are on a website and want to open another browser window when you click on a link rather than having your current window switch to that content, click on the link using the middle mouse button. That will open the linked page in a new tab
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A customer just called and said he wanted to copy some of the layout tabs from another drawing into his new drawing. I didn’t know how to do this so I asked Alan here what to do. Here is how you do this: 1. Start a New drawing using our template2. Use the AutoCAD INSERT…
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Sorry for the lack of posting, between the holidays and trying to get a new HydraCAD update out the door, things have been a _bit_ busy. So – Input Types. Why use them. A bunch of reasons. What do the mean – here you go: When you right-click on the Input Type column you will…
The H-Factor 