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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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Windows 8 – Don’t Do It (not yet, at least)

Here is the deal:

1. Windows 8 is in Beta.
2. I upgraded my machine to Win8 – 64 bit two months ago
3. Almost everything works. Almost..
4. I have not actualy installed much on Win8, but have rather relied on existing apps still working
5. Based upon discussions I have had with Autodesk, ACAD 2013 will receive a service pack updated so it will work on Win8. ACAD 2012 might also get a service pack. No earlier versions will get fixed to work on Win8

Here is why I am warning you off, for now – I was bumping along nicely, actually, with Win8. I was able to use ACAD 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2013. 2010 and 2010 and 2007 would tell me that they are not compatible and gave me a choice to check online for a fix or carry on, so I ignored the warning and carried on. One day, I decided to try out the 'check online' option while firing up 2010. Bad move. It went online and decided that 2010 is not compatible, end of story. I can no longer open 2010 under any circumstances, and I have tried everything to remedy that. I need 2010 because I must edit the CUI menu file in that version in order for our users on V51 to be able to use the menu changes. Waaa.

Also, as important if not more important, I have not tried to install any AutoCAD 2012 or 2013 versions on my computer and I have not tried to install Hydrtec software either. So I do not know what will happen. I hope to get a new drive and start those tests next week, so stay tuned and hold off on Win8 for now.

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