3D Vertical Pipe Bends

Question

Does anyone know how to put in a vertical pipe bend between nodes in your drainage model?

Steven Litzau · Answer

Beau, 
 Strictly speaking you can create a profile in the profile view for your conduit to be anything that you would like. I would see this as a regular occurrence on non-gravity systems, but it can be done on gravity flow systems as well. The caveat here would be that the analytical effort looks to a conduit start and stop elevation and resulting slope, so would not account for any bends developed in this manner. If you are needing to perform hydraulic calculations, not just looking to model your system (for plan production efforts for example) you will need to place a dummy or null node at that location and adjust the conduits on either side to reflect your desired configuration. 
 Hope that helps. 
 Steve

Jonathan Smith · Answer

As Karl and Steven both say, the way to model a vertical bend in a storm or sanitary pipe is to insert a node, and a transition node is what I would use for this. Storm and sanitary conduits are always considered to be at a single gradient between nodes.