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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 your own logo on Hydraulics cover sheet

July 30, 2007

A common request is to put your own logo on the hydraulics printout cover sheet. This is pretty easy:

Note: You may have to make any sizing adjustments to your bitmap for it to fit on the cover sheet. You can use a .jpg or .png file too, just rename it to a .BMP extension

Copy your bitmap (i.e. ABC_SPRINKLER.BMP) to the \HES\HydraCALC\Ver50\Data\Setup\Reports folder
Locate the file named NO_LOGO.DAT file in that folder. This is a generic Cover Sheet. Rename it to the same name as your bitmap, using the .dat extension (i.e. ABC_SPRINKLER.DAT)
When you select Print Final in HydraCALC, select your Cover Sheet

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