I'm working with civil engineers within my company on a job that they have already designed a pipeline in 3d CAD. They have created a "pressure Network" complete with elevations and slopes and such and I would like to be as exact as possible and use this network in Hammer to do my analysis. Is there a way to import this network with slopes/elevations at the ends of the pipe? I'm not familiar enough with Civil3D to figure out how to make this work for my purposes.
The profile does a lot of funny things and we just want to be as exact to the design as possible in modeling.
Kathryn,
We have a tool called ModelBuilder that will allow you to import a CAD file (.DXF) or other file types to build the model as it's already been constructed by the other engineers.The easiest way that I've found over the past years to do this is to work with a shapefile rather than a CAD file though. Shapefiles tend to have caused me fewer issues, so if you can export the CAD files to shapefiles that would probably help you in the end. This wiki explains step by step how to use ModelBuilder to construct your model:
If you do choose to use a CAD file to build your model please refer to the directions found in this wiki:
ModelBuilder can be used in either the Standalone version of HAMMER, HAMMER for AutoCAD, Hammer for Microstation, or HAMMER for ArcMap.
I'm not sure how large this model is that you're referring to, but it might also be a good idea to read this wiki on preparing a model for analysis in HAMMER. It explains how to help assure you're using a skeletonized model that will compute more quickly and easily when you need to run a transient analysis. Doing this will help with the troubleshooting process should need to do any.
Regards,
Mark