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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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Fine Tuning Your 3D Performance in AutoCAD

Thanks to a long time customer, I now know about the AutoCAD command for tuning up your 3D performance. It is 3DCONFIG.

This brings up the 'Advanced Degradation and Performance Tuning' tool (sounds futuristic, eh?). From here you can tweak this or that to speed up 3D, but some of the highlights are as follows:

1. Check for Updates: This will check for updates to your display driver

2. View Tune Log: This will tell you if your card is certified by Autodesk. It will also list which features are available or not available for your card and will tell you what driver version you are currently using.

3. Manual Tune: This feature lets you turn on features that are not turned on by default for your particular situation, such as Hardware Acceleration. This is one I am going to turn on myself, to see what happens. If I don't ever post again, my machine crashed an I lost access to this blog and you will never hear from me again.

Autodesk has published a white paper on this topic, and it includes a number of handy tips. View it HERE.

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