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For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Creating Pipe
Networks.
Exercise 1: Creating a Pipe Network from a Polyline
In this exercise, you will create a pipe network from an existing polyline. In
this method of creating a pipe network, you use standard AutoCAD drawing
commands to create a polyline, and then automatically place a pipe endpoint
and structure at each polyline vertex.
You can create a pipe network from a variety of entities, including 2D and 3D
polylines, AutoCAD lines and arcs, and feature lines. In this exercise, you will
use an existing 2D polyline.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Creating Pipe
Networks from Objects.
Create a pipe network from a 2D polyline
1 Open drawing Pipe Networks-1A.dwg, which is located in the tutorial
drawings folder (page 819) .
This drawing contains existing ground and corridor surfaces, alignments
that represent intersecting road centerlines, parcels that represent property
boundaries, and a polyline that represents the proposed pipe network
layout. In the following steps, you will create an AutoCAD Civil 3D pipe
network from the polyline.
2 Click Home tab
➤
Create Design panel
➤
Pipe Network
drop-down
➤
Create Pipe Network From Object .
3 Click the left end of the blue polyline that is near the center of the road.
The end that you click specifies the beginning of the pipe network. The
network will flow away from this end.
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