Find connected pipes and structures
When running a pipe network analysis you might encounter a system ill-conditioned error: Most of the time the system provides the name of...
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Jun 17, 2021
New Water Reticulation Training Videos
We are happy to announce that we have released fourteen new water reticulation training videos for Devotech iDAS v12. These videos are...
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Mar 12, 2021
Bulk Water - Rename the structures in the chainage direction
We streamlined the workflow to rename the Bulk Water pipes and structures in the chainage direction. This workflow supports multiple...
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Feb 26, 2021
Display pipe nominal diameter in structure table
Autodesk® Civil 3D® structure tables can only display limited properties of the connected pipes. The table excludes user-defined fields...
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Jan 22, 2021
Pipe Manager mapping does not save automatically
If you need to adjust Pipe Manager mapping every time you open the Pipe Manager then you might not have the write access to the following...
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Sep 15, 2020
Analysis with a break pressure tank
If you need to reduce the pressure in a water network, you can either use a break pressure tank or a pressure reducing valve. The...
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Sep 4, 2020
Flow direction arrows for water reticulation networks
The pipe flow direction can vary during the water reticulation network analysis. There might be situations where the flow direction for...
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Aug 11, 2020
Display crossing pipes in profile view
It is often required to display crossing pipes or services in the profile view (longitudinal section). The workflow in the video below...
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May 18, 2020
Rotate multiple structures at once
Autodesk Civil 3D structures must often align with other objects for instance road edges, alignments etc. Civil 3D only allows users to...
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Apr 29, 2020
Tank with atmospheric inflow
The following video demonstrates how to model a water tank with an atmospheric inflow: This video can also be found in our Training on...
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Apr 20, 2020
Pipes not extending to the structure symbol
This is a fairly common issue which occurs when changing the drawing scale. Generally it can be fixed using the Audit command,...
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Nov 29, 2019
Run water network analysis with parallel pumps
We created a new video on how to run a water network analysis with two parallel pumps. The video explains how to find the required pump...
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Oct 25, 2019
Change pipe colour as per pipe diameter
Designers often need to visually check the pipe sizes in plan. Using different colours for different pipe diameters is a very efficient...
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Jul 30, 2019
Improve the performance of Autodesk Civil 3D when editing a pipe network vertically
Pipe network editing in Autodesk® Civil 3D® tends to be very slow, especially when the plan production longitudinal sections are in the...
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Apr 16, 2019
How to create a Civil 3D table for a specific structure type
In certain instances you need to create a structure table for a specific structure type, e.g.: air valves, scour valve, manholes, house...
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