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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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Category: HydraCAD
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A customer from Sweden asked the following this week: “I have a question about HydraCALC, is there a way to change the default path for where the program initially finds its projects to open? For instance, now when I press OPEN, it always open “C:\HES\HydraCALC\Ver50\Data\Jobs”, we have our projects in a different location, so for…
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Want to make your own symbols? EasyWant to use the same symbol for two different temperature heads? Easy The answers all come down to the same thing. The second one albeit a little differently. And…a trick concerning the word ‘same’ The answer is to start with an existing HydraCAD head, making changes to it (or…
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A customer asked last week: How do I properly use a 4×3 Bell Reducer so that it lists correctly? The answer, according to my co-worker Bill McKenna: 1. A coupling should already be on the pipe intersection where the diameters are changing 2. Select the coupling type required for the Bell Reducer being used: The Diameter…
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From a Customer, via a co-worker: I have a quick question. How to I list 001 Victaulic 90’s and 009 Victaulic Couplings? Is there an equivalent? I cannot seem to locate them in HydraLIST The answer depends on which program is being used: Using AutoList from HydraCAD: Change your fitting mapping to one of the available…
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You buy an Autodesk Subscription, but are stymied when trying to install it on a user’s machine? Yeah, so are a lot of people. Autodesk does not do a good job of explaining how user access works, IMHO. Here is a typical scenario: ABC Sprinkler Company buys two AEC Industry Collections. Johnny B. is the…
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There are many ways of adding loose material and kits to a HydraCAD drawing in order to get them listed. Some are old(er) and many are newer. All of these are on the Listing Toolbar. These do not need to be attached to pipes or sprinkler heads in order to have them list. They simply…
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From a customer: “I have a question about modifying hanger symbols. Here’s the issue, many times the Lister’s complain that our plans are too busy, because pipe diameters lay over hanger numbers, etc. I know we can use the auto cleanup but I really want to eliminate the hanger # & either modify an existing…
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Some couplings result in a 1/8″ or more pipe separation, after they are added to pipe. On long runs of pipe, the multiple separations accumulate, and result in a pipe that is too long overall. For example, a run of pipe with 16 couplings can result in the pipe creeping 1/8″ per coupling for a total…
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From a long-time customer and friend: ‘I had a question about center to center dimensions on pipe. We do tons of CPVC, and the ½” increments aren’t necessary. Can I force 1” increments on the center to center dimensions?” This can be done by setting the default drawing pipe dimension rounding to the nearest inch.…
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I had no idea this command existed, but found it when looking for a better way to rename a layer after a customer reported an error while running an AutoList. The cause of the error was that the pipe block layer, SPRKDATA, was built in the drawing as sprkdata (lower case). While may of HydraCAD’s routines…
The H-Factor 