The H-Factor

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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…

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Month: January 2013

  • From a customer: "I started using the Viewbase command, which I learned from the H-Factor blog.  I love it, it makes pump details very easy to do.  My only question would be about certain block/details.  A lot of the time I use Revit models from manufacturers, such as Reliable.  I will download a 3D valve…

  • What do I mean? Well, My coworker's machine got mucked up and we decided to install Windows 8 and start over. After the installation, I noticed that I was unable to connect to our server. I looked and his machine said it had Windows 8 – so what's the deal? Turns out that some marketing…

  • From AutoDesk: "Product keys are required for installation of Autodesk products and are used to differentiate products that are both sold independently and as part of a product suite. For example, installing AutoCAD 2016 as a point product requires product key 001H1, but installing AutoCAD 2016 from the Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate 2016 requires…