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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…

September 2012
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What is the status bar? It is that thing at the bottom of your drafting window that looks like this:

Now, in my opinion, the icons are pretty, but I would rather have the words, so I don't have to think too much when I am changing settings. So, right click on any one of these buttons and deselect 'Use Icons'

This will give you named buttons:

But, that is a lot of buttons, especially since we don't use many of them in sprinkler design. Next, right click on any button again and pick Display to show the buttons available. Deselect the ones you do not want, unfortunately you can only turn one off at a time and will need to start the process over.

In my case I left the following on and turned off the rest:

Resulting in:

Much better…

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