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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: July 2010
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Our friends in New York asked us for a tool to cut piping up into a given length (usually 7') so that it can fit in a jobsite lift. The command for this is Cut Into Pieces (CIP). It is on the coupling toolbar on a fly-out with Custom Coupling: The dialog box is: The…
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In earlier (2008 and older) versions of AutoCAD, when you started the MTEXT command you would get a toolbar popping up that had all the formatting options that applied. In 2009 and newer – no toolbar. Instead you would get a ribbon panel for MTEXT editing. This was something that was bugging me all along,…
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This entry updates one I did a few years ago. The method for specifying whether HydraLIST should use the hole size or the fitting size has changed. If you want to spec the fitting size, then just keep listing the 'usual way'. If you want the hole size then right-click in the Fitting column adjacent…
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There are two ways to mark sloping pipe in HydraCAD V5x. Both require the use of the Define Sloping Pipe command on the Pipe Elevation flyout of the Piping toolbar. The alias is DSP. In Case One you can just label the pipe with the slope you want to denote. Only the upper (or lower)…
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A user called to ask if there was to secure a drawing file so no one else can change it. Seems the AHJ is demanding a DWG file, so sending a PDF or DWF won't cut it. One of my coworkers (George) found this app by googling: CadVault Has anyone tried this? There is a…
The H-Factor 