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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: February 2013
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A customer asked today if AutoCAD 2013 is compatible with Windows 8. Guess what – offcially, it isn't! Here is the official list of compatible OS for each AutoCAD version: Operating system compatibility for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT We have run AutoCAD 2013 on Win 8 and have seen one or two funky things happen…
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The AutoCAD variable LAYOUTREGENCTL controls REGEN between, er, Layouts. There are three settings, 0, 1 and 2. AutoCAD help explains these options the best: Why even have a 0 (zero) option? Well, if your RAM is extremely limited, this keeps you from getting fatal errors due to the memory being overloaded. The best setting is…
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This post was prompted by a call from a long time customer (Hi, Debbie!). I found the following on another blog and it sounded interesting enough to repeat here: From Ellen Finkelstein's AutoCAD blog (a very excellent one, by the way) "I want to make sure that you know about 3 really handy commands that…
The H-Factor 