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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: May 2007
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I have a customer/friend here from Sweden this week for training. He brought his laptop and started working on it like anyone else would and I didn’t give it a second thought until he mentioned it was a Macintosh! He has a MacBook with an Intel Dual-core processor running BootCamp which is downloadable free from…
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Art had a pretty busy week with five posts in five days, so I thought I’d chime in to give him a bit of a break. A question I often get asked, is from users who would like to share their HydraCALC and HydraLIST printouts with non-Hydratec users. HydraVIEW offers the option to save the…
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An update to HydraCALC which contains the ability to printout hydraulics conforming to NFPA 2007 is now available for download on our website. As always – when you update your HydraCALC, you must update your HydraVIEW. Set up your Info Sheet under View->Info Sheet and choose NFPA 2007. Also choose NFPA 2007 when you print…
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It is possible to automatically save a 2004 version of a drawing every time you hit SAVE in 2007, but you need an add-on to do it. DUALSAVE.ARX is the add-on. 1. Download the DUALSAVE.ARX from our website at this address and save it to your H40\PROG\CAD2007 folder2. In AutoCAD, pick Tools, Load Application…3. Navigate…
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It is pretty easy to list an extra threaded outlet off a welded line (or main), for example a plug for future. 1. Go into Sprinkler Setup and pick New Symbol. Select either PLUG1.DWG or PLUG2.DWG2. Select Attached Directly to Line or Main3. Pick OK and choose the proper thread size for the outlet4. Insert…
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For those of you still using digitizers (and it may only be one of you and you know who you are), you may have found that there are no default tablet commands with V45. We do, however, ship a separate tablet menu that you can transfer into the main HydraCAD menu so you can merrily…
The H-Factor 