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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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AutoCAD 2013 Service Pack 1.1 Released – Fixes XREFs Not Resolved

This Service Pack fixes many things, but what made it pop up on our radar was that a customer was unable to properly load a drawing containing xrefs in 2013, yet it worked fine in 2012. This must be a new problem (broken with SP1.0?) since it could not have been around since the April release, unresolved.

View the list of changes and download SP 1.1 here: AutoCAD 2013 SP1.1

There are many fixes in this Service Pack. Here is what Adesk has to say about the XREF fix, specifically:

External Reference (XREF)

  • External reference drawings (XREFs) show as unresolved in AutoCAD 2013

 

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