Place Drip Emitters and Heads

 

 

The Drip floating toolbar will appear.

The Drip floating toolbar for selecting drip equipment.

 

Area for Drip Emitters: This is intended to be an entire planted area, where each plant in the area is to receive drip emitters. This area is to receive above grade ½” poly drip tubing with single outlet emitters to each plant, either directly connected to the drip tubing or attached to the tubing with ¼” distribution tubing to drip stakes. This area will be represented with a hatch pattern and a dashed border outline.

 

Area for Drip Spray: Planted area intended to receive virtual head to head coverage of drip spray. This area is to receive above grade ½” poly drip tubing with spray outlet emitters directly on the tubing or attached to the tubing with ¼” distribution tubing to drip stakes. This area will be represented with a hatch pattern and a dashed border outline.

 

Area for DripLine: Area to receive a grid pattern of either above or below grade dripline, which is poly pipe tubing with emitters build into the pipe at various intervals by the manufacturer. This area will be represented with a hatch pattern and a dashed border outline.

 

Area for Drip Bubblers: This is intended to be an entire planted area, where each plant in the area is to receive drip bubblers. This area is to receive above grade ½” poly drip tubing with drip bubblers to each plant, either directly connected to the drip tubing or attached to the tubing with ¼” distribution tubing to drip stakes. This area will be represented with a hatch pattern and a dashed border outline.

 

Drip Emitter: Individual drip bubblers, single outlet emitters, multi-outlet emitters, and drip popups are placed with an individual symbol for each emitter. These can be placed in conjunction with an area to receive drip tubing and emitters, such as when the designer wants the trees to receive drip bubblers, but all other plants are receiving drip emitters. They can also be placed at individual plants and hard piped with PVC below grade pipe to a drip remote control valve.

 

Drip Equipment: Place miscellaneous support equipment to supply or control water to the drip area, such as drip remote control valves, flush valves, drip air relief valves, and zone control.

 

Place Area for Drip Emitters

 

Drip single outlet emitters are intended to be used in conjunction with an above grade drip tubing system. These emission devices may be applied directly to the ½” drip tubing, or connected to the tubing with ¼” distribution tubing to drip stakes.

 

Draw a polyline (on any layer) around the areas that are to be irrigated with a drip tubing system. Click on the Place Drip icon Area for Drip Emitters on the Drip floating toolbar, and click on one of the appropriate polyline defined areas. The polyline line will be changed to a dashed drip border area line, and a hatch pattern that reflects the selected drip emitters will be inserted in the area.

 

Area for Drip Emitters icon.

 

Select a closed polyline that represents the area intended for drip outlet emitters..	The polyline border will be changed to a dashed line and a hatch pattern infill will be placed.

 

Place Area for Drip Spray

 

Drip spray emitters are intended to be used in conjunction with an above grade drip tubing system. These emission devices may be applied directly to the ½” drip tubing, or connected the tubing with ¼” distribution tubing to drip stakes, similar to the drip emitters above. The layout of the spray heads is up to the installer; however, the Irrigation Schedule will include a description that includes language similar to “Adjust heads as required for planting or for head to head coverage”. The designer may edit the description for the schedule from the Project Irrigation Manager further if they have more specific coverage requirements.

 

Typical Drip Spray installations.

 

Draw a polyline (on any layer) around the areas that are to be irrigated with a drip spray system. Click on the Place Drip icon Area for Drip Spray on the Drip floating toolbar, and click on one of the appropriate polyline defined areas. The polyline line will be changed to a dashed drip border area line, and a hatch pattern that reflects the selected drip sprays will be inserted in the area.

 

Area for Drip Spray icon.

 

 

Select a closed polyline that represents the area intended for drip spray emitters..	The polyline border will be changed to a dashed line and a hatch pattern infill will be placed.

 

Place Area for DripLine

 

DripLine spray emitters are either above or below grade multiple driplines laid parallel to one another. The dripline is poly pipe tubing with emitters build into the pipe at various intervals by the manufacturer. Generally, the spacing of the drip emitters on the DripLine is the same spacing between driplines.

 

Draw a polyline (on any layer) around the areas that are to be irrigated with a dripline system. Click on the Place Drip icon Area for DripLine on the Drip floating toolbar. A Select Dripline dialog box will appear, indicating any driplines added to the project. Select the appropriate dripline, and click on one of the appropriate polyline defined areas. The polyline line will be changed to a dashed drip border area line, and a hatch pattern that reflects the selected dripline will be inserted in the area.

 

Note that the angle of the hatch pattern will match the angle of the polyline segment selected, allowing the designer to have the dripline hatch express the general direction that the dripline tubing will be running.

 

Area for DripLine icon.

 

Select Dripline dialog box. Highlight the appropriate dripline, if more than one was added to the project, and click on Place.

 

Select a closed polyline that represents the area intended for the selected type of dripline emitters.	The polyline border will be changed to a dashed line and a hatch pattern infill will be placed.

 

The hatch patterns will automatically be different depending on the type of dripline.

 

Place Area for Drip Bubblers

 

Area for Drip Bubbler emitters is intended to have an entire planted area receiving drip bubblers. The Drip Bubbler areas are intended to be used in conjunction with an above grade drip tubing system. These emission devices may be applied directly to the ½” drip tubing, or connected the tubing with ¼” distribution tubing to drip stakes, similar to the drip emitters above.

 

Typical Drip Bubbler installations on above grade drip tubing..

 

Draw a polyline (on any layer) around the areas that are to be irrigated with a drip bubbler system. Click on the Place Drip icon Area for Drip Bubblers on the Drip floating toolbar, and click on one of the appropriate polyline defined areas. The polyline line will be changed to a dashed drip border area line, and a hatch pattern that reflects the selected drip bubblers will be inserted in the area.

 

Area for Drip Bubbler icon.

 

Select the Area for Drip Bubbler icon and use the pickbox to select an appropriate polyline border.

Resulting hatch pattern and dashed border area outline to indicate an area to receive drip bubblers.

 

Place Individual Drip Bubblers

 

Individual Drip Bubbler emitters can be placed one at a time, either in a drip emitter area (where it is intended to be connected with the drip tubing serving the emitters) or individually to be hard piped with PVC underground piping.

 

Typical Drip Bubbler on PVC riser to below grade PVC piping.

 

Click on the Drip Emitter icon on the Drip floating toolbar, and select the appropriate drip bubbler nozzle from the dialog box. Then place the bubblers individually where intended.

 

Individual Drip Emitter icon.

 

Select the appropriate nozzle for the drip bubbler to be placed.

 

Either place the emitters within an Area for Drip Emitters (where it will be tied to the drip tubing system for that area), or individually as needed (where you would hard pipe from a valve to the bubblers).

 

Place Drip Popups

 

Individual Drip Popup emitters can be placed one at a time within a previously defined drip emitter area, where it is intended to be connected with the drip tubing serving the other emitters.

 

Typical Drip Popup connected with distribution tubing to the drip tubing system.

 

Click on the Drip Emitter icon on the Drip floating toolbar, and select the appropriate drip popup nozzle from the dialog box. In this example a Rain Bird Xeri-Pop XP-600X 6” popup body was added to the project. Place the popups individually where intended.

 

Drip Emitter icon.

 

Nozzles available for the Rain Bird Xeri-Pop XP-600X. Each nozzle automatically has a unique symbol associated with it.

 

Place the drip popups within an Area for Drip Emitters, where it will be tied to the drip tubing system for that area.

 

Select the nozzle desired for the drip popup. A target will appear the size of the nozzle radius.	Place the drip popups where applicable. The drip popups are intended to work in conjunction with drip emitters.

 

Note that you can also place Drip Popups outside of a Drip Emitter Area, where you can individually pipe them using the piping functions.

 

Place Drip Multi-Outlet Emitters

 

Individual Drip Multi-Outlet emitters can be placed one at a time, either in a drip emitter area (where it is intended to be connected with the drip tubing serving the emitters) or individually to be hard piped with PVC underground piping.

 

Typical Multi-Outlet Drip Emitter installation options.

 

Click on the Multi-Outlet Emitter icon on the Drip floating toolbar, and select the appropriate nozzle from the dialog box. Then place the emitters individually where intended.

 

Place Drip Emitter icon.

 

Select the appropriate nozzle for the drip multi-outlet emitter to be placed.

 

Either place the multi-outlet emitters within an Area for Drip Emitters (where it will be tied to the drip tubing system for that area), or individually as needed (where you would hard pipe from a valve to the bubblers).