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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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Defining Sprinkler Head Part Numbers for AutoList

Taking into consideration the large number of sprinkler heads available, we decided not to clutter up the database and avoided predefining most of them. This means that you will often run an AutoList and find that the Miscellaneous tab in HydraLIST has a number of yellow highlighted head entries without a description. That is because the part number for those heads does not exist.

The printed instructions for this process can be found in the HydraLIST Manual on page 2-75. We will summarize below:

Steps

Go through all the usual steps to properly set up your sprinklers in the drawing, including choosing the part number.

This time, you will have the option to add the head to the database, after you pick the Collect Selected Head Data button

You will see a series of two dialog boxes. Answer in the affirmative

To share with others and distribute around the office: Copy the \HES\Hydlist\Ver50\Data\Setup folder from computer to computer, or copy just these two files:

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