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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 2015
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One of the best features added in HydraCAD V50+ (long overdue IMHO), was the addition of automatic line and main tags.Where are the settings for adding these found? When you start AutoList (SAL), pick the Options button: In the Listing Options, you will find two options pertaining to the tags, one for lines and one…
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A customer contacted us about a problem with his drawing as the drawing only had about a hundred heads but was 32+ megs. It turns out that the drawing had a large number of DGN Linetypes, and these really bulked up the DWG file. Before we got to dig too deep into the problem, the…
The H-Factor 