Using a Pipe Network Tools to Create a Rising Main

What’s that? The Spanish Main? No, a rising main. In the US, we’d say a forcemain, or pressure pipe.

One of my top 100 New Zealanders of all time, Peter Thomson of MWH (as featured in Peter Thomson on Pipes) sent me a video yesterday showing his technique for creating a rising main. I met Peter in person (finally!) at teamblue22’s Civil 3D University this summer.

Some notes about this video:

1. He uses Civil 3D 2008, but we will forgive him for that.
2. He says “Long Section” when we really know he means Profile. (cough)
3. His styles are worth noticing
4. I could listen to this video all day long. In fact, I listened it most of today on repeat.

Peter’s method is just one of many workflows floating around in practice today. Also check out:

Using a corridor to model forcemains and pressure pipe

Wastewater: Tools to Help Layout Sanitary Pipelines

Comments

[Matt Anderson]

Love It!

[kendallbales]

I had problems getting the same results from his video to work in 2011