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Adding Hanger Types to HydraLIST

If you want to use a new type of hanger, or are a fab shop that gets a job from a contractor that uses a hanger type that you do not have, it is easy to add that new hanger type to your own machine. A hanger is an assembly, and an assembly is just…

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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 AutoLine to Break Pipes at Head Locations

This entry outlines a little-known feature of AutoLine.

Let's say you have large bays with irregular spacing and you have spaced heads throughout those bays, and now need to connect them. Like this:

Draw the branch lines from the nearest head, to the furthest head, without stopping at the heads in between.

Do this for each line:

When complete use AutoLine, without riser nipples. It will connect the heads within the Longest Armover length, even if the heads are right on the pipe!. If you are superstitious, use 1" as your arm length. Either way, the pipes will be broken at each head location.

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