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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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Double riser nipples were a long asked for improvement that was included in HydraCAD Version 50 when it was first released.The dialog associated with this command does not generate too many questions, probably since the graphic helps make sense of the options available:

Once thing that does generate questions is how to go up one riser while going down to the other. I got this question twice in the last week:

Customer #1:

"How do we show this in plan view so that we have riser
nipple text indicating pipe going down from the feed pipe and riser nipple text
indicating pipe going up from the feed pipe. When I use the stacked command it only give me either 2 up
texts or 2 down.  I can’t get one of each.
"

Customer #2:

"I need this drawing in 3d and I don’t know how do a pipe up
and down at the same time. See attach dwg as a reference. Could you help me,
please.
"

Here is how this is done (click to enlarge). It relies on the riser nipple editor featured in this post.

DoubleRN

This sample drawing will be included in a future update and will be accessible by picking HydraTools->Tools->Training Drawings

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