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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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Cool 2011 Feature #5 – Creating New Objects by Selecting Existing Ones

AutoCAD 2011 has a great feature call Add Selected. Just right-click on anything and pick Add Selected from the ensuing cursor menu and you will be creating another object the same as the one you clicked on. If it is a block, you will be inserting the exact same block in the same layer. You will be asked for the insertion point, X and Y scale factors.

If it was a line or pline you clicked, you will be asked for the Start Point for the new line/pline and then asked for the next point(s). The new line/pline will be drawn in the same layer and linetype and color as the original.

Text will match the style, layer, font, obliquing, etc of the exisitng text and you will be asked for the start point and rotation angle.

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