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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: December 2010
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My co-worker Paul fielded this one from a customer and wrote a response: From the customer: Can you please instruct us on how to use a 3D representation of an existing hanger and use it for a new hanger assembly? I would like to use the 05 hanger 3D representation for one of our hanger…
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Autodesk has a Navisworks NWC Export Utility that lets you create Navis content directly from the HydraCAD 3D model without having Navisworks and without the need to create the Solid Pipes drawing. Install the linked tool, elevate to 3D and then type in NWCOUT. This will create a Navisworks cache file that can be opened…
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I have a 5 year-old machine running Windows XP 64-bit and have been quite happy with it. But, some newer things that I need to do with it require Windows 7 and I have put if off long enough. Going from Windows XP to Windows 7 requires a complete 'clean' install of Windows, as does…
The H-Factor 