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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: March 2009
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In 2009 and newer you might have grumbled once or twice about the fact that the good old SNAP/ORTHO/OSNAP/etc. buttons at the bottom of the screen have been replaced by icons that require that you hover over them to figure out what the heck they mean. This is not an improvement in my opinion. If…
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If you choose to install the new databases for HydraLIST and HydraCALC – here is where the existing files get backed up to: Note the two Backup folders, one under each program. Also note the folders named Standard Data under each. Regardless of whether or not you choose to replace the data, a…
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From a customer: Art, we are doing a hospital that has say 1500 heads per floor x 6 floors on armovers. When we go to tag the piping, the branch lines are say 1.5” the arms are 1” and the mains are 4”. Since the mains are on a different layer, they are easy to…
The H-Factor 