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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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Turning Your Library of Blocks into a Tool Palette

I posted about this before, but not concerning a wholesale replacement of your blocks with tool palettes.

If you have a large library of your own details and blocks, you can convert entire folders at a time to tool palettes by using the Design Center:

1. Press CTRL+3 to open the tool palette (if not already open)
2. Now open up the Design Center using CTRL+2
3. Navigate to the folder where you have the blocks you want added to the palette
4. Right-click on the folder and pick Create Tool Palette

Repeat as necessary

This will create a palette named after the folder you selected and containing all the blocks in that folder.

See this post for more general details

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