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Category: HydraCALC
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Say you want to have European Standard fittings selectable in HydraCALC. You pick Utilities / Alter Pipe and Fittings to bring up the pipe tables and see they are already created, but you wonder why they don't show up. The reason is there is no Short Name assigned to them. HydraCALC does not have every…
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A customer sent a job over looking for an explanation: "I have an inquiry about HydraCALC. I’m trying to calculate a system with sloping branch-lines as shown in below figure. I made two calculations in which everything is the same except for the elevation. First, all heads have same elevation of 20 feet. And second,…
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Many of our users aren't aware of the fact they can customize the cover sheet logo in HydraCALC. These steps are pretty easy and can normally be done in about 5 minutes. 1. You'll need your logo, preferably as a .BMP and with a resolution of 500×500 pixels or greater, but any image type will…
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My co-worker Paul produced this blurb, on request from a customer who was attempting a Velocity Pressure calculation (a velocity pressure calculation is required by NFPA when designing Fixed Spray deluge systems). This type of calculation requires the use of the Input Types field, discussed in this post a ways back: Why Use Input Types? For…
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ustomer 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 me…
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Good news! HydraCAD Versions 52 and 53, along with HydraLIST and and HydraCALC work great with Windows 10 Preview Edition 64-bit. I did not test the 32-bit version of Win 10, however I don't expect there should be any difficulties with that version, with the exception that V53 already does not support 32-bit platforms, by…
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When you right-click on the Pipe Type field in the pipe input screen, you usually see a dialog box that looks similar to the box below. But, what if you don't use some of those pipe types, or would rather display other ones? Pick the Options pulldown menu, then pick Edit Pipe Display Limits Here,…
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Last year we added a new feature to HydraCAD that allows users to add Fittings, Valves and Backflows to the drawing in order that they may be picked up in AutoCalc and brought over to HydraCALC. The command is Add Calculation Fittings from the Calculation toolbar: Pick this command. This will display a dialog box…
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My coworker Bill wrote this up, based on frequent requests for help with Pressure Reducing Valves: There are two types of PRV valves, so there are two ways to handle the calculation: Type 1 – Fixed PRV Three calculations are required for a factory set or field adjustable PRV: Static at PRV, System Demand at…
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This idea is from long time customer and frequent good advice giver, Larry Howell at L & K Fire Protection in Marion, Illinois "I wanted to share windows file explorer libraries with the blog users, as I just discovered their usefulness. When choosing a place to save calculations and stock listing files, the default does…
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