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Christen Crique
over 1 year ago
I have a few questions:
So if I understand the concept of Customer meter elements correctly you can use them in order to more accurately assign the customer demands to nearby nodes without having to incorporate the pipes that connect to the customer meters in to your model. But then the I find myself wondering the following:
If my license allows me to model with a limit of 2000 pipes is that then really 2000 pipes or is that 2000 elements. So is it:
all my pipes, nodes customer meter elements etc together can’t be more than 2000
or can I have 2000 pipes plus the nodes and elements attached to them and then also some customer meter elements for example.
The X and Y coordinates that are mentioned are those the same as latitude and longitude coordinates? So let’s say I have the longitude and longitude of my customer meters along with the demand at those meters will load builder and modelbuilder properly place the subsequent customer meter elements and demands based on the latitude and longitude? I do not understand how the x and Y coordinate system in WaterCAD works and how I check to see if ccordinates of junctions that I bring in for example with t-rex will come in with the right x-y ccordinates
When using thiessen Polygon generation would you have to draw the outer surface polygon before or after running the generator?
I wanted to know if I understood the concept of the GIS ID correctly. So from my understanding an element (pipe for example) is given an ID in the GIS source and when you import the elements form the GIS source that pipe comes in to WaterCAD with that ID attached to it. The pipe in the WaterCAD model and the GIS database are then linked through the ID so that when a change is made in the waterCAD model (say for example the c-factor of the pipe ) it automatically updates the pipe in the GIS database. Unless the ID of the element has been lost through for example skeletonization of the WaterCAD model.