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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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Saving, Reading and Matching the Top Five FIGs in Drawings

From a customer:

“Now that I freelance for several different clients, I run into some issues with AutoList. I have to change a couple of the Top Five FIGs each time I bounce between clients projects, as I only stocklist as they request piping to allow for any building or coordination changes.

This causes issues when I have to go back to a previous project as the Fitting group info is not drawing dependent.”

But it is drawing dependent! 

The Top Five FIGs are saved in the drawing when you use Fitting Mapping and when you run AutoList.

Further, you can read the Top Five stored in such a drawing. And, you can set your current Top Five to match those of the drawing you just opened. Here’s how:

Go to the Top Five by using the Choose Fitting Groups button in the Listing Tag Setup dialog or through Fitting Mapping. On this dialog are the buttons we are referring too:

Read Drawing FIGs will display the stored FIGs in a text file

Match Drawing FIGs will display the stored FIGs and then

Write Drawing FIGs will record the current FIG setup in the drawing. This way you can make templates for each customer you have and use Match to align the two.

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