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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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V(ista)-Day

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 run
AutoCAD2005 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 service pack for 2007, but we have not seen anything.

Dell has started selling computers with only Vista installed. However, you can get XP on the follwing lines:

Small Business:

Desktops: The Optiplex and
Precision
Laptops: Latitude and Precision

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3 responses to “V(ista)-Day”

  1. Arthur Dove Avatar
    Arthur Dove

    A good link for comparing Vista versions can be found at: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ff_x64.asp

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  2. bdk Avatar
    bdk

    Just an FYI for you guys, AutoCad 2007 will work on Vista, but a few things need to be changed. Here is the forum that has directions to get 2007 working on Vista.
    http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=177727&page=1

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    Arthur Dove

    Thanks BDK. I am aware of that, but it is necessary that the user have administrator rights for that ability. Also it is a bit out of the norm and so we don’t want to try to teach thousands of users how to bypass that Vista feature (yet)

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