Does anyone know if there is a way to label a pipe part way between structures? I would like to be able to label a sanitary line where a service ties in with the main line invert. Any ideas?
Hey Jay,
let me try to explain it better. When you have a main line sanitary sewer often in residential projects you'll have services wye into the pipe between MH's. Without having to break the pipe and add in a bunch of null nodes and have to figure out how to label them all as one I was wondering if anyone has come up with a label that will tell you the invert of the pipe at a particular point on the pipe? Does that make more sense?
I have an idea that maybe I could do an expression that will read the downstream invert, the slope of the pipe, the station where the label is and give the invert. I'm going to try to see if I can figure it out today.
I'm not aware of any way to place an invert label by picking a random point along a Pipe. You're expression idea may work.
Sounds like you're hoping to label the service invert at each service wye along the main?
This can be done assuming you had a pipe connected to the main line by creating a Pipe Label that uses the available "Start or End pipe Invert Elevation" components. It would also require the extra null structures and breaking up the main pipe.
@losfotos wrote:
Without having to break the pipe and add in a bunch of null nodes and have to figure out how to label them all as one
The broken up main can be labeled as if it were one pipe MH to MH using Span Pipe labels.
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
That would be a way to do it. BUT since more often than not we don't profile the services we just label them in plan view. Actually we do label sanitary services in profile but not landscape drains. I'm actually trying to figure this out more for the landscape drains since we just do a plan view with inverts and slope for them.
I think I have an idea of how to do it but I need to call out expressions from alignments as well as pipes... Can that be done? I'm going to see what I can do with it but it may take a while. If I had C3D 2013 on my computer at home I could actually spend some time on it. (can't believe I just said that)
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada