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Creating and displaying a cover profile

Creating and displaying a cover profile - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating and displaying a cover profile

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- One of the most important considerations in your pipe network design is ensuring that you have enough cover. In this video, you'll learn how to graphically represent the required depth of your pipes. To accomplish this, we're going to create a cover surface and a cover profile. If you think back a few videos, we created an EG and FG surface, which ensures that, no matter where we create pipes and structures, we're always working with the correct surface elevations. So we have this invisible surface. We don't have any contours displayed currently, but it is the marriage of these design contours and these existing contours. So that surface exists, and we want to represent the minimum depth of the pipes, also expressed as cover, the minimum cover, how much earth is from the top of the pipe to the surface of the ground. And a common value that's used for this is two-and-a-half feet for storm pipes. Now, if you're in colder regions, you might need to be deeper. If you use elliptical…

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