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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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Making your own tool palettes – Part II

In our last episode I told you how to make your own tool palettes. Here’s how you can do more with them.

You can control a number of things about how your block gets inserted from a tool palette. Right click on your block and pick Properties. This will give you the properties you can control. Scale, Rotation and Prompt for Rotation are found in the Insert section. In the General section you will find options like Color, Layer and Linetype to set specific for those (otherwise they adopt the current layer and color settings).

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Create as many palettes as you like. Next I’ll show you how to group them and Export them to some one else’s machine

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2 responses to “Making your own tool palettes – Part II”

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    LarryH

    If you insert several blocks in a palette, can you make the property changes on one, then migrate it to the others.

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    Arthur Dove

    As a further note: If you want to change the properties of more than one block you dragged to a tool palette, hold down the CTRL key and select each block to change, then right click and pick properties

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