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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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Some customers need to produce a modified Raw Materials List to send to their accounting department so the items can get inventoried and/or billed. Here is how you do that: *Note: These steps are outlined in the HydraLIST manual in the How Do I? section* When the user processes a job, they need to check…
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In even a regular-sized drawing it can be hard to determine what is a main, what is a wall, what is a partition, etc. Some people use the Pretty Pipes command to help with this, but that has a few drawbacks, especially when it makes it hard to select objects. Lineweights can make that easier,…
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HydraCAD and AutoCAD both have methods of creating typing shortcuts/aliases to commands. HydraCAD does not deliberately use the same key sequences as AutoCAD. I say usually, because sometimes AutoCAD adds new shortcuts which share our Aliases. We don’t change ours to stay out of their way. HydraCAD aliases take precedence because of the way each program…
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A Customer asked me the following question (paraphrased): Q: I am currently designing an apartment bldg using sidewall sprinklers for the top level. And this is also a BIM project so our piping is imported into Navis Works. If you look at the attached sidewall 2D photo. You will see that I have the sidewall…
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There are two overhauled commands in AutoCAD 2020 that are used pretty often. One of the is the PURGE command. The other is INSERT, which I will mention in a future post. A customer had trouble getting the rings and other elements of hangers to show up properly when they ran 3D Hangers. I am…
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Revised 7/6/22 Many IT professionals like to ‘push‘ installs onto user machines, as they don’t want to sit on each user’s machine and click the Next and OK buttons repeatedly. There is a way to record the steps used to install our software, and replay those steps on each user’s station. The Silent Install options…
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AutoCAD has a Dark Color theme and a Light theme. In all, there are four basic configurations. Dark and Light, regular and large buttons. These are accessed via the OPTIONS command (type in or right-click on the Command: line). They are found on the Display tab. The default is the dark theme with regular-sized buttons,…
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From a Customer: “Where is the setting to get the inch prefix when I am using the change pipe diameters? Every time I have used this command with 2019 it takes away the inch suffix when I select a pipe size to change.” Answer: The place to set it is there when you start a new…
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You might be in a situation where you want to move some riser nipple tags and want to keep them together, so that they line up nicely. There is a tool to do this with pipe tags and hanger tags, but not with riser nipple tags. Which is where Grips come in. Grips have dozens…
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A customer contacted me today about having trouble using our commands. The cause was that he was using a template that someone else in his company had made, and it wasn’t compatible with our program. You can easily make your templates to work with our program. Here are the simple steps: 2. When it opens…
The H-Factor 