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Adding pipes

Adding pipes - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Adding pipes

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- [Instructor] With the inlets in place, let's add some pipes to connect them together and convey flow to where the pond will be. I'll simply click one of the inlets in the drawing and I'll go up to the ribbon and launch the edit pipe network command. Now I want to point out a common mistake that people will make. In their minds they're thinking, I want to create some new pipes. So they'll go up to the home tab of the ribbon and expand pipe network, and say I want to use the pipe network creation tools. The thing that you have to realize when you do this is you're creating a brand new network and that's not what we want to do. We want to add to the network we've already created. Now it doesn't seem like a network because we've got these isolated inlets that aren't connected at all, but actually it is. These three inlets are part of a single network and they understand that they're grouped together. So we want to continue building that network and adding pipes to it. So we have to make…

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