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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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‘Flattening’ an AEC 3D Drawing (-ExportToAutocad/AecToAcad)

Another one from our friend Larry Howell at L&K Fire Protection (Marion, Illinois)

If you get a background drawing that has AEC objects in it, you might find that drawing takes forever to run through the AutoCAD FLATTEN command, or never completely flattens. Larry has discovered a command that will handle it for you:

  • Open drawing with objects, I had 5 floors so it worked better wblock the floors separately
  • Open new Wblock drawing and enter “-ExportToAutoCad or AECtoACAD”
  • Left the “filename” default and hit enter
  • Made a new drawing “ACAD-*”
  • Converted a lot faster than flatten, converts AEC but leaves “REGION OBJECTS” but made a good clean drawing.
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