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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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Rotate and Copy at the Same Time

A tip from Joe O. at Troy Sprinkler:

I just came
across something really cool that I did now know and thought it might be a good
one to pass along.

I wanted to
copy objects and then rotate the objects.  Essentially having the same
group of objects but rotated at a different angle.  It’s already built
into the AutoCAD Rotate command!

1. Start the
Rotate command

2. Select the
object(s)

3. Specify the
base point

4. Notice the command line options – at the next
prompt choose C for copy

5. Specify the
rotation angle

I don't know what version of AutoCAD added this option, but it is pretty cool…

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