Our organization is just starting to use the ORD Drainage & Utilities package for storm sewer design. We have laid out a storm sewer system and performed an analysis on the system using the software. We also used calculations in our organization's design manual to verify the software's design outputs. From that comparison we came up with the following questions and observations. All the following information is based on drainage analysis using the rational method.
Thanks so much for your help and any information is great!
Thank you Beebe! I got tied up with project work here recently, but will be getting back to this in the near future. I'll definitely go through and make some markups as I go through these and will share those marked up PDFs back to the group!
Hi Tom,
Beebe posted the three documents. Please let us know in the forum if it answers your questions or if it needs corrections (and what those are).
thank you, Beebe!
WhatHappensWhenYouHitCompute.zipWhatHappensWhenYouPlaceAnInletPDFDownload.zipWhatHappensWhenYouPlaceAPipe.zip
For more information about the Road and Site design tools, visit the Road and Site design WIKI at: http://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/w/road_and_site_design__wiki
There used to be a some documents called "What Happens When You Place an Inlet" and "What Happens When You Hit Compute". I don't know if they're still widely available - they're old - but I wrote them to provide details. Specifically so that you know what database fields mean and which ones are used in what calculations. while they are outdated, they're still useful in understanding the innards of how StormCAD works (a Service Ticket might get you the docs). And, yes, the OpenFlows Community is excellent about hydraulic discussions (they're quite exuberant (I often referred to Jesse D as the most helpful person at Bentley)).