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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: August 2023
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Customer X called today to ask if he could reduce the width of the polylines that are part of our DefLines (Drop Windows, System Boundaries, AFF/BTS, etc). There is no setting in our programs to do so, but there is an easy way to change them after the fact. After some chatting back and forth…
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So, my co-worker (who shall remain nameless) sent me an annotated drawing with notes on how to properly model trapeze hangers for coordination. The notes were written as individual lines of text. This annoys me: I like working with MTEXT so much more. MTEXT allows for formatting, fonts, underlining, numbering and more. I thought I…
The H-Factor 