Input Trench Line
This command allows you to input a trench sewer network structure
from polylines or points. It first prompts you the Input Trench Line Dialog where you
specify the Trench Type, Trench System, and the System Name. The
Individual Profile option lets you input one trench reach at a time
and save its information to a profile (.pro). The Connected Network
option lets you input all the trench polylines on the drawing,
merge them into a trench network structure and save the whole
structure to a .sew file. For trenching or utilities without
Invert-Ins, uncheck Prompt For Invert-In Elevation. If you want to
set the Rim Elevation to any surface elevations, check on Default
Rim Elev to Surface Elev and then use the Surface Button to select
the desired .tin or .flt surface file. Prompt For Pipe Wall
Thickness allows you to enter in the pipe thickness that will be
used in calculating backfill quantities in two prompts: 1) the
interior pipe size and, 2) the thickness of the pipe wall. If this
is check off, the value in Pipe Wall Thickness will be
automatically added to the Pipe Size for backfill volumes. You can
also enter in a Structure Width to be considered in the Cut
volumes. Pipe Shape determines the prompting so that you can create
Circular, Elliptical, or Rectangular pipe. Click OK to start
inputting trench structures. There
are two different types of Input Methods in this command: Polyline
or Points. Points allows you to pick freely the location of each
sewer structure. With the polyline method, Takeoff extracts the
coordinates of all the vertices of the polyline to determine the
location of the structures. With both methods you are prompted for
the starting station number. Takeoff computes the station values
based on the starting station number. Next, you are prompted to
enter the Manhole ID (Sewer Trench) or Station ID (Pipe Trench),
Invert Elevation, Manhole Elevation (Sewer Trench), and Pipe Size
or Pipe Group for every station. You can either enter the values
manually or select the texts that represent these values on the
drawing. When you finish inputting a polyline, the command would
ask you for a profile name to store the profile data if you are
doing Individual Profile; otherwise the command would ask you to
pick next polyline that is in the same trench network.
Prompts:
Pick a polyline that represents a trench
reach: pick a
polyline on your drawing
Starting Station of trench reach
<0.0>: press Enter to accept 0.0 as the starting
station or enter a value
For station 0.00 ...
Enter/<Select text of Manhole
ID>: select
the Manhole ID text on the drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard
to enter the Manhole ID value manually
Enter/<Select text of invert
elevation>: select the invert elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the invert
elevation value manually
Enter/<Select text of manhole
elevation>: select the manhole elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the manhole
elevation value manually
For station 270.22
...
Enter/<Select text of Manhole
ID>: select
the Manhole ID text on the drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard
to enter the Manhole ID value manually
Enter/<Select text of invert
elevation>: select the invert elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the invert
elevation value manually
Enter/<Select text of manhole
elevation>: select the manhole elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the manhole
elevation value manually
Undo/Select/Group/<Enter Pipe
Size <0.0000>>: select the pipe size text on the drawing or
enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the pipe size value manually
or select Group to enter in a Pipe Group
For station 425.02 ...
Enter/<Select text of Manhole
ID>: select
the Manhole ID text on the drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard
to enter the Manhole ID value manually
Enter/<Select text of invert
elevation>: elect the invert elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the invert
elevation value manually
Enter/<Select text of manhole
elevation>: select the manhole elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the manhole
elevation value manually
Undo/Select/Group/<Enter Pipe
Size <0.0000>>: select the pipe size text on the drawing or
enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the pipe size value
manually or select Group
to enter in a Pipe Group
For station 649.73 ...
Enter/<Select text of Manhole
ID>: select
the Manhole ID text on the drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard
to enter the Manhole ID value manually
Enter/<Select text of invert
elevation>: elect the invert elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the invert
elevation value manually
Enter/<Select text of manhole
elevation>: select the manhole elevation text on the
drawing or enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the manhole
elevation value manually
Undo/Select/Group/<Enter Pipe
Size <0.0000>>: select the pipe size text on the drawing or
enter Enter on the keyboard to enter the pipe size value
manually or select Group
to enter in a Pipe Group
Another Polyline
[<Yes>/No]? enter Yes to input another trench reach from
a polyline or enter No to finish
At the end of the command, a file opening dialog would be prompted
to you to specify a .sew file name to store the trench network
structure.
Prerequisite: A drawing
with one or more polylines that represent the trench
structure.
Keyboard Command: pline_trench