How do you do your pipe networks?

[deltacoolguy]

How do you do your pipe networks?

If you have portions of pipe networks in various parts of a site, and these portions are completely separate and independent of each other, do you have them all in one network or do you separate them into separate networks?

Personally, I prefer to separate them into separately named networks.  This give me more flexibility, IMO, and prevents extraneous stuff from invading my profiles which I then have to manually remove, but I have seen others put everything into a single network.

I'm primarily asking just in case there's a good reason the have them all in one that I hadn't considered.

[jmayo-EE]

I typically try to create one stm network regardless if parts are connected.

[pault34]

  I typically set seperate networks (I.e. North Basin, South Basin, Offsite, etc...). Adding Catchment areas and connecting them to my inlets.  This way when I export to Storm/Sanitary Anaylsis Module I don't have to mess around too much more.  I name my inlets (#1, #2, #3..) and I use pipe labels in the sheets, from my drainage, streets, & storm sheets.  So if I change anything it ripples through the plan set. 

  Also when I do QTO I can track quantities better if I split them, as I'm creating reports that I keep with the various changes, so that I can track myself. Custom your report output and you can make a nice digital booklet of your project info.  And its easier for someone else to come back behind me and see how I got everything, from quantities to my basin assumptions.

Water and Wastewater follow theat same practice and management level.