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Creating a pipe network

Creating a pipe network - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating a pipe network

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- [Instructor] Now that we know what a parts list does let's go ahead and create our pipe network. So, we're going to open up our exercise file, 10_02_PipeNetwork. Within this drawing, we have some circles drawn with numbers defining the path of our design for our pipe network. So, we're going to go from number one, just go downhill to number five. We're going to create a sanitary sewer pipe network. And so, to create a pipe network, we go to our Home ribbon, Create Design panel, and choose from the bottom right, Pipe Network Creation Tools. Since this is a sanitary sewer system, we're going to name our network "Sanitary". Make sure, of course, we select our correct parts list. Our layers, we may make sure that all these layers are set correctly, especially if we're going between storm and sanitary, different layers may need to be applied. In this case, I want to make sure that the structure profile layer matches the structure plan layer. I have all of those set correctly. Click OK…

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