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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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From a customer: "I started using the Viewbase command, which I learned from the H-Factor blog. I love it, it makes pump details very easy to do. My only question would be about certain block/details. A lot of the time I use Revit models from manufacturers, such as Reliable. I will download a 3D valve…
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What do I mean? Well, My coworker's machine got mucked up and we decided to install Windows 8 and start over. After the installation, I noticed that I was unable to connect to our server. I looked and his machine said it had Windows 8 – so what's the deal? Turns out that some marketing…
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From AutoDesk: "Product keys are required for installation of Autodesk products and are used to differentiate products that are both sold independently and as part of a product suite. For example, installing AutoCAD 2016 as a point product requires product key 001H1, but installing AutoCAD 2016 from the Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate 2016 requires…
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How Autodesk licenses are handled when you have more than one network seat or suite has often puzzled me. Can you open both Acad and Navis at the same time? Can one user open the Acad, one the Navis and a third the Revit? The answer is no, unless you have more than one network…
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I ran into this one about two years ago and swore that I wrote a blog entry. Apparently not. I ran into it again today via a customer in the Bahamas (nice place, huh?). This virus is not dangerous or vicious, but it is really annoying. It causes an error upon loading HydraCAD due to…
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My biggest complaint about Windows 8 is the lack of a Start button and the associated Start Menu and its shutdown provisions. The Metro interface gets blamed, but MS could have left the Start Menu and still added the new interface. Metro, why do I hate thee? Let me count the ways… The Metro interface…
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SHIFT can do some SHIFTy things (sorry, I had to ). I found this on Cad Addict's website: SHIFT while drawing a line will lock the perpendicular inference. It is like a temporary activation of the ORTHO mode. If you press SHIFT, a tooltip with similar to the macro Icon of digital cameras appear to…
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Once you 'go to 3D' in HydraCAD, you get a wireframe model. This is actually a Visual Style named '2D Wireframe'. If you would like to make a more professional looking presentation, you could apply a different Visual Style. To open up the Visual Style palette, type in VISUALSTYLES or pick the Visual Style button…
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Version 51.11, and by extension, V52.01 added a new function named Bundle PDFs to the brand new Collaborate toolbar. This command will be renamed Create Submittal Pack in the next update (V51.12/V52.02), so keep an eye out for the new name. This command will scan the drawing an pull out PDFs for many of the…
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HydraCALC has a special tool to help you figure out where in your system losses are occuring. The Graphical Pressure Display (GPD) is that tool. In order to use it, one extra step is needed – you need to fill in the column named Input Type This column specifies the role of each pipe in…
The H-Factor 