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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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As new products are released by manufacturers, we add them to files that can be imported into HydraLIST. Why don’t we add them to the HydraLIST database directly? Two reasons: We don’t want to overload the database with thousands and thousands of items that may not be used by most of our customer base Many…
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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…
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This from a customer in Sweden (paraphrased). This in metric, but the math is the same in US units: On the Fittings Used Summary, it says that a 65mm Tee has the equivalent pipe length 3.8m but in the calculation says 7.497m. And it´s the same for a 65mm 90 degree screwed elbow…the equivalent pipe…
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We have an ever-expanding repertoire of support options. Here is the menu: For All Programs: HydraCARDs: A Knowledge Base of all known solutions to problems users might encounter can be accessed from the HydraCARDs shortcut on the desktop or this link: HydraCARDs This blog has entries for hundreds of topics on all of our programs,…
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Occasionally users may get a ‘Job has gone 200 or more passes without balancing.” error message. This means, usually, that there are disconnected pipes in the job (pipes that may have flow in them, but do not connect to the piping between the Remote Point). You can try picking Yes to have it continue to…
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We regularly update the HydraCALC database to add and make changes to fittings, pipe types, valves, backflow preventors and technical data sheets in PDF format for all of these. We make this database available for download in the Customer Support area of our website, which can be found at www.HydraCAD.com. Enter the Customer Support area…
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From a Customer: “We’re engineers. As such our expectations for plans are a little different than installers. We need to use clear, consistent 2-dimensional symbols and simple lines to represent pipes without fittings. Right now all of our projects are showing top-down 3d models in plan view and every single pipe fitting. This makes it…
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Previously I mentioned Listing Order. This post takes things up one level to discuss just what ends up where when a job is AutoListed. From the HydraCAD Manual / Electronic Help: It is important to understand how the Listing tags work in order to achieve a successful AutoList run. There are two types of Listing…
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How does AutoList decide what order to list piping in? Here are the general listing rules that pertain to the order: Per the ASCII order, numbers list before letters. Punctuation marks, including spaces “ “ list before either (because spaces come before numbers in the ASCII chart). You want the mains to list first, then…
The H-Factor 