I personally change my decimal flows, that Land F/X creates after sizing the zone, to a whole number. I feel that it looks better on the design - gives it a more clean finished look. Until recently, you could change this flow number and then add another valve and designator to your design, and the flows would stay the same. NOW, if you change the flow number (for ex: 34.2 to 34) and then have to add another valve on the line, thus another designator, and you choose "increment" when placing the designator, the flow reverts back to it's decimal form. This is absolutely a time waster if you've completed 70 valve flow changes and realize that you have to add another valve, or forgot to designate a valve.
Does anyone else have this issue now?!?! I'm curious if I'm the only one, or if there are more of us out there that would love a toggle switch or just go back to the way it was.
Michelle,
If you may recall, we had discussed this back in October of last year. This was due to a change back then, dealing with improvements of the callout functions. At this time we also discussed that your work around would be to simply do your manual changes at the end of the project instead of throughout the design process so that you were only making the changes one time.
We had left the conversation with two options:
- Continue with your workflow we discussed above, or
- Post onto our forum with examples of what you think the valve callout (designator), valve schedule, and locate valve should look like, in your ideal setup. We can then hear it from the masses on whether they would like to see something similar or not. (remember to consider what happens with the functions dealing with sizing, piping, highlighting, etc as well). This will really help us gauge where it might land on the wishlist, if at all.
Now that you are posting about this here, why don't you start mocking up what you would like to see as far as functionality is concerned based on my list above (in option 2), and we can start figuring out what to do and how to do it.
Thanks!
You are Correct Jake, I now have to wait until the very end of the project to make those flow number changes, however, when design changes come in and additions or revisions have to be made, that's when the issue arises.
Michelle,
I'm sorry, I understand your frustrations about this workflow and would love to help further this as a wishlist item. While we certainly can see the aesthetic look that you (and quite possibly others) are used to and prefer, this is a technical thing. The flow is represented in several other areas as I described above and truly the things we need to focus on. If we can come together with ideas on how this rounding of numbers affects the other aspects of the system without compromising the integrity of its results, then we can definitely improve your workflow.
Michelle,
I too can see the aesthetic of not having decimals on ones plans but when it comes to choosing technical accuracy over aesthetics, accuracy always wins from an irrigation standpoint. to quote Boar's Head,"Compromise elsewhere."
-CadMonkey
Glasir Design Irrigation Consulting
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