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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: October 2009
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The question now arises, what machine to buy for all this 3D stuff. This from one of our customers “We just ordered 12 machines: They’ll all be 64 bit with Windows 7 Ultimate loaded… 9 gigs of ram, 10,000 rpm Raptor hard drives, and NVidia 260 video cards with 1.8 gigs of ram on them”…
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AutoCAD lets you modify your menus to add toolbars, modify them, make Workspace changes and so forth. BUT, our installs and updates will overwrite them, so you REALLY should save those changes. This is how you do that. In AutoCAD, workspaces, menu and toolbars are stored in a menu file with the extension .CUIX file.…
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Just a quick note to say the following: If you have Windows XP, then you cannot 'upgrade' to Windows 7. You will have to do a full install of Windows 7 and then reinstall all your software. If you have Windows Vista, then you will be able to upgrade directly to Windows 7, no re-installation…
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Sorry for the long absence. I was just helping wrap up to large projects (hint, hint) that are finally done! News about those next week. Some of you miss the old (pre-2007) double-click behavior whereas you got a full dialogue of attributes when you double-clicked on a block. AutoCAD changed this some time ago, but…
The H-Factor 