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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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This is a quickie – Sometimes you want to refer to a point that just
doesn’t exist. In the example below there is no intersection between
the two lines drawn. Or is there?

Intersection
Lets say you want to pick the Intersection of the two red lines in
that picture. When prompted for a point, pick the Intersection osnap.
Then hover over one of the lines. You will notice an ‘X…’ followed by
and ellipses (three dots). Pick the line. Now pick the other line.
AutoCAD will wait for you to pick two lines if you use the Intersection
osnap!

How nice of them.

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