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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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Notice that nifty new zoom features in 2007? The one where you feel like you are flying down a roller-coaster? Don’t care for it either, huh? Type in VTOPTIONS (View Transitions) and uncheck the first box – Enable animation for pan & zoom. Or play with the Transitions speed to maybe make it more to…
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I am sure many of you that are new to AutoCAD take many of the features of AutoCAD for granted, but those feature weren’t always there. Just like things that will come in the future are here yet. If you know what I mean. For example – some milestones that look pretty primitive right now:…
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AutoCAD’s FIND command is pretty handy in way you might not expect. Here’s an example: Say you want to change a bunch of hangers from #11 to #16 – 1. Turn off all but the Hangers layer2. Type in Find3. Type in 11 in the Find text string field (do not enter the # sign…
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I just ordered Verizon’s fiber-optic service here at work (Fios). We currently have a frame-relay service (aka – Partial T1) now that runs at 384k. This new service will run at 15000k downstream (downloading) and 2000k upstream (uploading stuff directly to our machines) -that 39 times faster boys and girls. Amazing. And less than $100…
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Another quickie, this one posed by a customer – Why am I getting negative numbers for my flow on part of my loop system? That is normal in a loop or grid. The negative sign indicates that the flow is in the reverse order of the direction the pipe has been input into the program.…
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This one is a quickie and comes courtesy of Bill McKenna – Say you have multiple identical floors of a building and you only want to Autolist is once but get separate stocklists for each floor.You can list Floor One with color code “RED” Use HydraLIST to do a save as to floor two or…
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From a Customer: We often get architects drawings that are drawn under a angle, we save these drawings as world and then create a new view (1) where we rotate the drawing that it becomes in a horizontal layout on our screen, this makes it easier to work with. Our Solution: Don’t rotate the drawing,…
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Microsoft tries to battle back from a diminishing market share this week after releasing Internet Explorer 7. This version is available now on Microsoft’s website at: IE7 download and will be released to the general public via a Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in November. A good review of what is in this release…
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How do you save user drawing files? How often do you back them up, and how? Do you back them up to a server? run tape backups? Please share you experiences since a number of customers have asked how others do it. One of our customers does it by changing his Automatic Save File Location…
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I got a request form a customer today asking: "If I am using AutoCAD 2014 can one of the estimators put 2012 in his machine so he can open and preview cad drawings sent to him? If not, is there a CAD viewer program available for cheap somewhere?" Yep! There are actually three options- all…
The H-Factor 