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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: Microsoft Stuff
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So, Windows 11… The good news (for us at least) is that all our current versions of Hydratec software work well on it. I ran the update on my machine, and my already installed software worked just great. I have also run some of our install without a problem. What’s the bad news? Nothing is…
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Quick Assist is built into Windows 10 and allows for remote control connections to other computers. No downloads or other software needed! Type in Quick Assist at the Windows Search bar. You are given two simple options when it launches If you want to take control or see another person’s computer, choose the Give assistance…
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Thumbs.db files are caches of the thumbnails of the pictures in a folder. They make it faster to display thumbnails when viewing a folder in thumbnail mode. They are near impossible to delete, often getting in the way when you delete the contents of a folder and cannot delete the folder itself due to the…
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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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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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I had a customer contact me today because he was unable to use any of the internet spawning commands in HydraCAD including Send an Email to Hydratec, Hydratec Website and Hydratec Support Blog (this blog). The cause of his problem was that a browser was not associated with HTML files. Instead, some other program was.…
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Most people seem to know that holding down the ALT key while tapping the TAB key switches Windows applications, not as many appear to know that holding down the CTRL key while tapping the TAB key cycles through open Documents or Drawings _within_ the current window. In other words, if you are in AutoCAD, and…
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Occasionally, we are faced with situations where we try to install a program and Windows says it is already there, but we think it isn't, and we can't find it in Programs and Feature in Control Panel. Or, we are trying to uninstall a program, and Windows errors out saying it is not there(!) The…
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What do I mean? Well, My coworker's machine got mucked up and we decided to install Windows 8 and start over. After the installation, I noticed that I was unable to connect to our server. I looked and his machine said it had Windows 8 – so what's the deal? Turns out that some marketing…
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My biggest complaint about Windows 8 is the lack of a Start button and the associated Start Menu and its shutdown provisions. The Metro interface gets blamed, but MS could have left the Start Menu and still added the new interface. Metro, why do I hate thee? Let me count the ways… The Metro interface…
The H-Factor 