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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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PDF’s and Locking Layers

From a question posed by a customer:

Question: Is
there a way to lock and password protect drawing layers so I can email them to
someone and them not be able to change the drawing. Also is there a easy and
preferably “free” way to make a drawing into a pdf. I use primopdf for making
calcs or lists into pdf’s but I haven’t figured a way to make a large document
sheet pdf with that program.

Answer: In AutoCAD 2007
and newer you can Plot to a PDF in the plot command, Choose the DWG to PDF
driver

Answer #2: The best way to
protect layers is to print a DWF of the drawing. You can then choose what abilities to edit the user has.

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    Arthur Dove

    From Joe Oliver:
    “I have used (and still use at home for different things) CutePDF for most of my .pdf needs. It’ll work with CAD, Office Suite software, Calcs, Stocklists, etc. I have not noticed an real problems with those common applications and the .pdf files produced seem to be good quality.”

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