July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
31h 52m
English
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Chapter 15
Storm and Sanitary Analysis
One of the trickiest and most controversial parts of a civil designer's job is determining where water and wastewater will go in a site. Civil 3D offers a variety of tools for designing and analyzing the hydraulic and hydrology portions of your project. Hydraulic calculations for pipe design take into account many factors that influence the end product. Hydrology is part science and part art, with a dash of voodoo. Luckily, Storm and Sanitary Analysis (SSA) is here to help you sort it all out.
SSA is a separate program that launches from the Analysis tab in AutoCAD® Civil 3D® or from the Autodesk folder in the Windows Start menu. This is the portion of the product that can compute site runoff, pipe sizing ...