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192 | Chapter 14 Designing Pipe Runs
2 Click Node to display the Node Data Settings dialog box.
These settings control the node name and structure
reference description and node head losses.
Make changes to the settings, as necessary, and then
click OK.
Changing the Default Node
Data Settings
3 After you have made all the changes to the pipe settings,
click OK.
4 From the Pipes menu, choose Define Pipe Runs
➤ Draw
Pipe Run, and then enter a new pipe run name.
Select a terrain model (when a surface is defined in a
project).
You can use this surface to extract rim elevations for the
manhole structures located at each pipe run node.
You are prompted to turn the current surface on or off. If
you want to enter elevations manually, click Off to turn off
the surface. If you want to extract elevations from the
surface, click On.
Drawing and Defining Pipe
Runs
5 If you are basing the run on an existing roadway
horizontal alignment, then select an alignment and place
the first point of the pipe run by specifying the station and
offset from the alignment.
If you are drawing the run manually, then specify the first
point by picking a point in the drawing or by entering its
northing/easting coordinates.
To draw and define a pipe run (continued)
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