I'm trying to use the Storm and Sanitary product add in to design a storm drain system. However, whenever I try to use anything in the Drainage tab (e.g. Drainage - Lay Out or Drainage - Edit/Review...) I get an error stating "You must have an open drainage data file". How do I create/open a drainage data file? I've setup my Project Defaults and they look like this:
As you can probably tell, I'm very new to InRoads. Thanks in advance!
I believe the Drainage Structures.dat file needs to contain definitions of pipes and structures, along with having a SDB file. I am not sure if that message is for one or the other but I believe it is definitely one of these.
Tools > Drainage > Options has a place to browse to the .dat file, Tools > Structures File is how you edit its contents.
File > New > Drainage tab in how you create the sdb file.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Hello Brandon, You should create sdb file (access mdb database otherwise) in Drainage tab or in File/New and open it for your drainage project.