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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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Get SMaRT

SMaRTools is now available for pre-release downloading on our company website!

What is pre-release? That means we have not formally announced it via email newsletter. It should be stable, but just in case there is a problem we would rather a few dozen customers have it than a few thousand.

What is SMaRTools?  Click to find out!

Do you need it? Maybe, and Yes.The driving force has been GCs who require coordination in 3D (even in NavisWorks.) The bonus is that even if that is not a requirement, SMaRTools can help make HydraCAD faster and easier because it makes figuring of hanger lengths, riser nipple, drops and head elevations obsolete.

It will install a second shortcut on your desktop which will load you into SMaRT. If you want to do things the old way, use your original shortcut.

Do the tutorial first. Why? Because we won’t support you until you do 🙂

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  1. Arthur Dove Avatar
    Arthur Dove

    A couple of things:
    1. If users double-click on a .dwg in Explorer to load an AutoCAD drawing, that drawing will be loaded under the profile that was last used. So, if you went into SMaRT to check it out and then double-clicked on the .dwg in Explorer expecting to be loaded into regular HydraCAD – surprise!
    Use the shortcuts, that’s what they’re there for. You may need to create a HydraCAD profile in AutoCAD and make the shortcut point to that to load regular HydraCAD.
    There is a revision (Rev1) to the HydraCAD updates (not to the SMaRT part) to notify you if this happens.
    2. If you only update the HydraCAD part, you may need to rebuild the menus in SMaRT once you get in there – use RBM at the command prompt to do this.

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  2. LarryH Avatar
    LarryH

    Art, download SMARTools last week and played with it this weekend, looks like Hydratec has hit a homerun with SMARTools. As CAD was meant to be, changes to drops, hangers, and riser nipples are made simple now. Tutorial was good and learning curve was made simple by simply updating existing commands. Had a just a couple questions for Mike and sent him a couple things.
    Now for the wish list, I need to put defLines on mechanical engineers drawings, because I have yet to see another trade in our area perform coordination drawings per specs yet. I always seem to provide everyone with a cross section or two of the dreaded hallways.
    PS: Big improvements on the CPVC listing – it suprised me some of the fittings it picks now.
    Thought I posted this once already, so blame it on Y3K if it shows up twice.

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