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Understanding pressure pipe networks - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Understanding pressure pipe networks

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- [Man] In our last chapter we looked at part networks. Well, this chapter we're going to be focused in on pressure part networks. What's the difference? The main difference is the parts themselves. The parts that we use with a standard part network is more focused on gravity design. You're going to have more structures which are clean outs, manholes, inlets. The pressure pipe network system, you're not going to have manholes. Rather, you're going to have fittings. As you see here, we have a T or an elbow, and besides the fittings, you also are going to have an additional type of part called an appertinence, such as we see here with a gate valve. All of of this we're going to, of course, do in both our design plan view, but also with profile view. And unlike a standard pipe network, we may have certain parts that we use we may have certain parts that we use just for our profile view, our vertical design. So, our pipe network design may be a little bit more intense because we're just adding those parts in a vertical design. So, if I pan up and over, you can see some of that. We have some elbows here that really aren't needed in horizontal, but are needed in vertical. We have our elbows and pipes, and they're shown in design and profile view so that we can work our system, which is our pipe network water system, and work it around our gas network. And again, since it's not a gravity system, we can come up or down and over to work with this design. So, we're going to see how we can lay this out, not just in plan, but also in profile view, and see the differences between a pipe network and a pressure pipe network.

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