Giving Your Water Networks a Geometry Lesson

I caught up with Owen Thornton of 12d Queensland yesterday for the third episode of his Stormwater Drainage Design Fundamentals webinar series: Give Your Water Networks a Geometry Lesson.

This series covers the basic and intermediate aspects of the Three Waters modules in 12d Model 14, with special emphasis on the design of stormwater drainage. It is presented as a condensed overview of the material normally covered in the first two days of the formal Three Waters training courses (W01 to W06) offered by 12d Solutions. This material is assumed knowledge for many of the more advanced training courses available in the Three Waters suite.

A construction-ready drainage model – including catchments, pits, pipes, culverts, channels and flood extents – is created from scratch in 3D and designed for specified minor and major storm events using the Rational Method. Output plans, long-sections and calculation tables are also produced.

This webinar is Episode 3 of the series: Give Your Water Networks a Geometry Lesson. It shows the Water Network Editor being used to establish links between water networks, geometric design strings and crossing service strings. This simple little “geometry lesson” helps to fully integrate water networks into the project, and sets a large number of parameters automatically. It also spares you from a considerable amount of manual drafting, measuring and data entry, even when the designs change.

–Lisa Stewart