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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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Annotating SMaRT Drops (and Sprigs)

SMaRTools will, by default, place Drop tags on all of your drop-style sprinkler heads. We have had feedback that people like this, but wish the text ere not so obtrusive. The good news is that you have complete control over what those tags look like, and you can even shut them off if you don’t want them.

Pick Ceiling Height from the Ceiling toolbar or Drops/Sprigs from the Sprinklers, Calculation or Listing toolbars. Pick Annotation Options. From here, you can choose to suppress the Drop tag entirely, or simply drop the ‘Drop’ prefix and/or ‘CC’ Suffix. I prefer to turn both of these off for drops, and the ‘CC’ off for Sprigs, if I have them

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    Steve W.

    “and you can even shut them off if you don’t want them.”
    I don’t see where to shut them off completely as I still get a length. For my workaround I’ve simply changed the DropSprigText layer to a nonplotting layer.

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  2. Art Avatar
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    Steve – In the Annotation Options, just select None as the Type to Process
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