looking into using hydraflow

[Anonymous]

We need to have an excel spreadsheet for designing our san and stm sewers. 

Is there a way to link the spreadsheet into the pipes network or by using hydraflows?

All I really need to link is the inverts, and structure numbers.

Thanks

C3d 2011

[Joe-Bouza]

if you are doing all you design in a spread sheet, why do you need to use hydoflow at all?

[Anonymous]

Ideally I want to have the pipe networks linked somehow to the design sheet.  Things always change.  We always end up with the question of what is right...  drawings or design sheet.  The other problem is changing one and forgetting to change the other (or not knowing one has changed).  A link would hopefully solve the problem.

Is there another way to work this?

[Joe-Bouza]

Linking to hydraflow would probably put you in the same position because a user can modify a pipe network after it has been updated via hydra flow and hydraflow would never know. You would need a two way link or some kind of lock on the drawing pipe networks. Sounds good but a little phantasmagorical. I think we're still beholden to having a human QAQC

[Matt.Anderson]

Lsimms1 -

The use of Hydraflow or Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Sewer allow you to extract the information from your Civil 3d pipe model, prepare it for analysis and design, and export that design back into Civil 3D so that the information changed in either Hydraflow Storm Sewers and Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Sewer is then updating your pipe model.

AutoCAD Civil 3D can read the STM file format and update your structures, pipe diameters, and invert elevations.