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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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The next new feature is Isolate or Hide Objects. A new property that has been added to each entity is its Visibility. You can Hide or Isolate Objects individually, or by selecting a bunch of them. Say you have an area of a drawing that is particularly crowded, and you want to be able to Hide some of it to make it easier to see. Select the area (or individual objects) to hide and right-click. Pick Isolate and then pick Hide Objects from the cursor menu that appears:

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This will hide all the objects selected. You can also Isolate all these objects the same way.

However, you can imagine the mayhem if you Hide key elements of the drawing and ship it to the AHJ that way, and they keep turning layers on to to avail. Notice the light bulb in the extreme lower right-hand corner of your Status Bar. If it has a yellow bulb, there are no objects Hidden or Isolated. If it is red, then there are:

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Pick End Object Isolation from here or the cursor menu to show these items.

You may also type in HIDE or UNHIDE to access these tools

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