Yes you heard me, static null structure descriptions! One of the most annoying things about null structures when designing a storm system are the description resetting if you make any changes to the connected pipes inverts or within the structure properties. I would always find myself having to go back through each null structure to make sure it did not reset. For the longest time I looked high and low to see if anyone had found a way to fix this or work around this issue. Make the jump to learn my workaround. (more…)
Please welcome Tony Carcamo to the civil3d.com team–JW
Hi everyone. I would like to say this is my first official post with Civil3d.com. Tonight, I would like to provide you a few tips and tricks for pipe network design. Lets begin by setting the Manning’s coefficient for each of your pipe sizes in the part network list. I provided a list of the three most commonly used storm pipe types below. You can also find this information in most city standard drainage manual. This will come in handy later on in the post. (more…)
I’m walking through our office and there is a flurry of activity coming from my buddy’s area. Enough that I’d stay away rather than ask if ay assistance is needed. Not because I’m lazy, quite the opposite. We are all balls to the wall when the pressure is on. If they are not bleeding, just let them be. They’ll shout if they need anything.
“JOHN!!! Can you come here a sec?” Hmm. He has grading sheet after sheet full of Structure labels that only indicate a TOP elevation, and not the FL for a valley gutter drain. Frustrated, he says he needs a solution fast, and has no time for my antics. Ok, down to business, after the jump. (more…)
I absolutely hate going into this dialog, so when I do, I always struggle to click in the right places. Thanks to Seth over at Being Civil: Part Builder: How To Add Custom Part Sizes I can breathe a bit easier.
Have you ever went to Draw Pipe Network Parts in Profile View only to have the Profile View become a “Sky Scraper” or in the case of setting the Profile View elevations to user specified, not have any of the pipe network parts show at all? (That’s because they’re lost in the Sea, Right? Well not really, they just have an elevation that is 0.00 or less.) Sea Level, get it? OK, maybe that was a stretch.
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Has it been so early in the design process that your co-worker wants to get started on the Storm Sewers design before you’ve even touched the PG surface and they want to get started preliminarily on the pipe calcs. and you’re afraid to define any Pipe Networks until you get the PG finalized or at least close to done?
I’m going to make an educated guess that some of you have. This topic might be somewhere out in Blog Land or Discussion Depths, but I occasionally see this happen to a few users. Hopefully this post will help those few and/or it may just create an additional item to your list of best practices. Make the jump for a tip that may just stop any of those from ever happening.
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