Storm & Sanitary - Pick which face of an inlet a pipe connects to

We use Select Series 2 Storm and Sanitary, sometimes for design and sometimes to generate storm profiles from manually computed structure elevations.  On a recent site design I ran into two instances where the pipe I inserted between two structures seems to pick the wrong face on the upstream inlet for the connection point.  We generally draw our network of structures and pipes and use the graphics to insert the structures in S&S.  This works as a check between what we worked out by hand and S&S and allows us to see if structure sizes and rotations are correct and if we are using the right pipe size. We tell Inroads to show the pipe connection to the inside wall of the inlet and not the center because that is how we have always done our designs manually. Is there a way to force Inroads to connect to the face and not the side of an inlet?

  • There is no way to change this. I have seen this before and while it does not effect design computations it does look odd in plan view and sheet production. I think it has something to do with the angle of the pipe entering the structure. At some point the maximum angle is exceeded and the pipe switches sides. Maybe try rotating the structure angle slightly. I assume this would only work if you are very close to that tolerance angle.

    Marc