The H-Factor

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Adding Hanger Types to HydraLIST

If you want to use a new type of hanger, or are a fab shop that gets a job from a contractor that uses a hanger type that you do not have, it is easy to add that new hanger type to your own machine. A hanger is an assembly, and an assembly is just…

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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…

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Category: Hydratec for Revit

  • With HydraCAD for AutoCAD, you can draw a ‘regular’ HydraCAD system, and then create the Revit model for coordination with the BIM team on a project. This requires a few things: You must have Revit on the computer using the HydraCAD for AutoCAD in order to make the conversion You must know the version of…

  • 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…