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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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Getting Revit Details/Blocks to Show Up in VIEWBASE

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 detail from them in Revit, then export it to a .dwg file.  Then I
will insert it into my detail as a block.  But when I use the Viewbase
command, those items will not show up in the parent model.  They show up
blank.  I didn’t know if you know of a work around this."

From Alan Johnston here at Hydratec:

"You can export the 3D view from Revit as
an ACIS (.SAT) format and import that into HydraCAD.  Then it comes in as
a 3dSolid and Voila…   It Works!!!!"

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