Shape File Imported Into Storm and Sanitary Analysis Shows All Zero Elevations

[danielepb1]

Good afternoon. I'm a beginner user of SSA (Storm and Sanitary Analysis) and I really need to import a GIS data with the elevations of a stream in order to run a simulation. But, when I import the data all the elevations are zero! What should I do? Thanks.

[antoniovinci]

A classic shapefile ships without physical elevations, unless you transform it into a true 3D shape, sir.

Using a spreadsheet, open the .DBF belonging to the shapeset, and look for a column like "height" or something similar.

If it's populated by numbers representing a Z dimension, you can apply those elevation to the objects, by means of _ADEDRAWINGS first, then _ADEQUERY.

[danielepb1]

Really thanks for yor answer!

But I still have a dought...How I've said, I'm a user beginner and I didn't understand how can I apply those elevations to the objects. When you said "By means of _ADEDRAWINGS first, then _ADEQUERY" is in Civil 3D or Storm and Sanitary Analysis? How can I do this?

[Murph_Map]

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@danielepb1 wrote:

Really thanks for yor answer!

But I still have a dought...How I've said, I'm a user beginner and I didn't understand how can I apply those elevations to the objects. When you said "By means of _ADEDRAWINGS first, then _ADEQUERY" is in Civil 3D or Storm and Sanitary Analysis? How can I do this?

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With SSA you can't, with Civil3D depending on the shp file you can create a surface from the shp file. Look at create a surface from GIS.

[Matt.Anderson]

SSA requires you to map the variables in the DBF with the appropriate variables for size and elevation.  Since the SHP DBF variables do not conform to a schema and can be anything - the user needs to identify the variable name to match.