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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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Month: February 2009
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This question was posed by a customer and frequent blog reader. Here's the list HydraLIST: \HES\Hydlist\Ver50\Data\Setup – If you take the whole folder (not subfolders), you will always be safe. If you are the one doing the editing and want to copy these to another machine, then sort by date and just take the ones…
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For the last six months I have put up with the fact that when I pick the New icon, I don't get the Start a New Drawing dialog, but instead get thrown into the 3D Land of Gray template. The only way around this for me is to pick the File pulldown then pick New…
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I am sure everyone in the world knew this except for me, but if you want to resend an email to someone, just open it, and pick Other Actions off the Ribbon toolbar and pick Resend Message That is all
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This one from Robert at Elite Fire who posed the question AND found the solution: Problem I have a problem with bloated scale lists when you plot which have ton of extra scales listed that look like " 1/8" = 1'-0" XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_XREF_ They seem to really bog down the drawing when attaching XREFS or copy/pasting…
The H-Factor 