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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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Configuring AutoCAD to Save Drawings to a Particular Version

Here at Hydratec we support users on all versions of AutoCAD, but primarily on AutoCAD 2007 or newer. When a user sends me a drawing I don't want to have to worry about whether I should open it in V50 or in V51 (both work the same for all usual support purposes). But, I don't want to send it back to them in a newer drawing format that they cannot read, either. So I have configured both 2010 and 2011 to automatically save all drawings in the 2007 format. You can do this in the AutoCAD OPTIONS dialog box:

SaveConvert

Pick the Open and Save tab and set the Save As: to the AutoCAD 2007 format

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