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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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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 go. You can explode one of our heads or make your own. Put it in some benign layer like DMNS, TEXT or your own.

2. Connect these fake heads back to the branch line using a line or pline in the same benign layer.

3. Define a ‘real’ head as an On a Sprig and choose the proper Flexhead type from the Material pulldown

4. Insert these real heads at the point where the branch lines meet your fake lines going to your fake heads

5. Shrink the real heads down so they cannot be seen – we usually use 1/20th (.05)

When you calculate the job you will have to add the Flexheads in as a fitting. If you do not see these as an option, you will have to download the flexheads from the Update site under Data / HydraCALC. You will need to give them a short name in HydraCALC / Utilities / Alter Pipe and Fittings.

HydraLIST will work just fine as is

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2 responses to “Flexheads and Their Ilk”

  1. LarryH Avatar

    Art, we do basically the same thing except we use a dynamic block with a zigzag line and have the grip points to snap to the real sprinkler and center of tile. Maybe in the future, hydralist and hydracalc will reconize a dynamic block of this type on the sprinks layer without the need for the additional head.

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  2. Arthur Dove Avatar

    That is a good idea Larry. Right now it is hard to get enough information from a dynamic block to know what it is and where it is, but I am sure we can figure it out

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