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Maintaining customer meter assignments after splitting pipes

Hi,

I have 4 customer meters already loaded and assigned to a pipe (red customer meters).  Please refer to the attached PDF.

  • I want to split the pipe and close the new small piece of pipe to delineate zone boundaries, however, whenever I try splitting the original pipe, the 4 customer meters (red) are automatically assigned to the small piece of pipe that I want closed.  
  • I tried re-assigning the customer meters, but that only seems to change the current active scenario, which is troublesome, since I have close to 10 child scenarios and will be creating more.  I do not want to have to assign these four customer meters manually each time I create a new child scenario.  
  • Please refer to attached PDF, that is exactly what I would like to have in my model, however, every time I split the pipe (orange circle), the four customer meters (red) are automatically reassigned to the new small pipe (want to close this pipe).  I pretty much want to maintain the assignment of the four customer meters, while splitting and closing the pipes previously mentioned. 

I hope to hear from  you soon.  

Regards,

Youssef Al Fahham

ATTACHMENT:  /cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/5925/WaterGEMS-Forums-_2D00_-Customer-Meter-Assignment-07_2D00_01_2D00_2019.pdf

  • Hi Youssef,

    Try reversing the pipe before splitting to see if that works out ok for you.

    Rob.

  • Hi Rob,

    This seems to work for the "current" scenario.  However, it appears that my four customer meters (in the child scenarios) lose their associations (dashed line from customer meter to pipe) after I split the pipe, possibly due to WaterGEMS automatically renaming the split pipes?  Is there a way to maintain the customer meter association even after splitting the pipe?  Or do I really have to re-associate each customer meter to the pipe element manually for each and every scenario? 

    Regards,

    Youssef

  • HI Youssef,

    Splitting actually deletes the original and creates two new copies.

    I'm not sure how your scenarios/alternatives are configured.  I think best option for you would be to do a reconnect instead (to preserve how things are currently associated across all scenarios).  Refer to the steps below.

    Best regards,

    Rob.

    Steps:

    1) Right click on the pipe you want to split and choose "Create Prototype" (this will be used in step 4).

    2) Layout a junction near where you want to perform the split (but don't split the pipe).  After placing the junction you can move it to the exact place you want it to be.

    3) Right-click on the pipe (click closer to the end of the pipe you want to reconnect) and choose "Reconnect".  Click on the junction you just created to perform the reconnect.

    4) Layout a pressure pipe (note: the prototype you created in step 1 will be used, so that the new pipe properties will match the original).

    5) You no longer need that prototype.  To remove it (and/or activate a different default prototype) choose View > Prototypes.

  • Hi Rob,

    Thanks for your help with this, I will try your method and will let you know if any other problems arise.

    Regards,

    Youssef