3.0 Irrigation

 

Project Irrigation Manager

§	Review the organization and functions of the Project Irrigation Manager.

§	Review the Source Data and Pipe Data for the project.

 

Add Components to a Project

§	Add Spray Heads to a project.

§	Add Rotors to a project.

§	Add Valves to a project.

§	Add Auxiliary Equipment to a project.

 

 

Place Heads into the Drawing

§	Watch the video on placing heads.

§	Review the Place Head function.

§	Watch the video on placing spray heads.

§	Watch the video on placing rotors.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.01 Place Heads and place Spray Heads and Rotor Heads into the drawing.

 

Flow Total

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.02 Heads and use the Flow Total function to determine the required flow for the project.

 

Circuit and Zones

§	Watch the video on Zoning.

§Open the drawing Tutorial\3.02 Heads and use the Circuit function to circuit and zone areas

§	For a fully zoned example, open the drawing Tutorial\3.03 Zones.

 

Schematic Mainline Layout

§	Watch the video on placing equipment.

§Open the drawing Tutorial\3.03 Zones and turn off the LI-HEAD-ZONE layer. Place the Quick Couplers (or hose bibs), and the Water Meter and Backflow (or service P.O.C.).

§	Draw the initial Mainline Layout.

 

Place Remote Control Valves

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.04 Schematic Mainline and turn on the LI-HEAD‑ZONE layer to view the circuited zones. Place some Remote Control Valves.

§	For a complete valved example, see the drawing Tutorial\3.05 Pipe.

 

Lateral Line Piping

§	Watch the video on piping.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.05 Pipe and pipe the heads in a zone to the corresponding valve. Turn on the LI-HEAD-ZONE layer when you need to see what heads are in a specific zone.

§	Watch the video on Highlight Station.

§	After piping the heads of a zone to the valve, use the Highlight Station function to check if all of the heads on that zone were piped.

 

Verify Lateral Piping

§	Watch the video on Verify Piping.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.06 Verify Piping and use the Verify Piping function to highlight any heads that are not piped.

§	Watch the video on inserting pipe arcs.

§	This function can also highlight “apparent intersections” which will require the Insert Pipe Arc function.

 

Size the Lateral Lines

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.07 Size Laterals and size the lateral lines.

 

Pipe Label Organization

§	Watch the video.

§	With the previous drawing sized, use the Land F/X Pipe Label Organization tools to clean up the pipe size labels.

Hint: If it is not turned on, turn on the layer LI-PIPE-MAIN-NPLT to view the Schematic Mainline location that was drawn earlier, so as to not move a label where the mainline will be drawn.

 

Mainline Piping

§	After cleaning up the lateral pipe labels, draw the mainline.

 

Verify the Valves

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.09 Verify Mainline and use the Verify Mainline function to see that the valves and quick couplers are connected to the mainline.

 

Label the Valves

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.09 Verify Mainline and label the valves.

 

Size the Mainline

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.11 Size Mainline and size the mainline.

§	After sizing the mainline, use the Pipe Label function to Label the Mainline.

 

Cleanup the Mainline

§	With the mainline sized on the previous drawing, clean up where the mainline interferes with some of the lateral piping, heads, or other equipment.

 

Associate Details with the Irrigation Components

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.11 Size Mainline and associate a detail with each irrigation component.

 

Place the Details into the Drawing

§	Review inserting details into a drawing. Open the drawing Tutorial\3.11 Size Mainline and insert irrigation details associated from above.

 

Irrigation Schedule

§	Watch the video.

§	Open the drawing Tutorial\3.11 Size Mainline and insert a variety of irrigation schedules.