I have trees on a separate valve that are located in a drip emitter area. I don't want them to be counted in the GPM's for the drip emitter area because they are not on that valve. Do I have to draw polyline line around them like in the tutorial "Excluding Interior Objects from a Drip Emitter Hatch (Multiple Option)"? I have just been subtracting the GPM'S manually, but I'm getting lazy, there must be a better way.
Hi Jennifer,
When you do it manually, is is obvious that the flow difference is so little that it really doesn't matter? We've found that the difference is so insignificant we just ignore it. But if you need ot make it clear, yes, you'll want to remove that area when creating the emitter area.
Seaweed.
When you do it manually, is is obvious that the flow difference is so little that it really doesn't matter? We've found that the difference is so insignificant we just ignore it. But if you need ot make it clear, yes, you'll want to remove that area when creating the emitter area.
Seaweed.
Jennifer,
This is something we will be adding to the Drip Emitter dialog box, to have it exclude trees of the same container size.
The last it got caught up, was the problem with a user thinking it might allow setting on a valve by valve basis (i.e. having a single drip emitter area, with two valves serving it, and a user wanting one valve to pick up just trees, the other valve the rest).
--J
This is something we will be adding to the Drip Emitter dialog box, to have it exclude trees of the same container size.
The last it got caught up, was the problem with a user thinking it might allow setting on a valve by valve basis (i.e. having a single drip emitter area, with two valves serving it, and a user wanting one valve to pick up just trees, the other valve the rest).
--J
Thanks Guys! Yes, I guess the GPM is not so important but also I didn't want those emitters for the 15gal trees to be counted in the irrigation schedule. In this particular project the only 15 gals are trees so I just changed the emitters to "0" for 15 gal plants in the drip area dialog box (thanks to a tip from Jake) and it worked perfectly. I guess in the future I will have to exclude the trees with a polyline when drawing area for drip emitter. Not such a big deal. Love this program! Having fun learning something new everday!
Jennifer,
It used to be easier to remove areas from the drip areas. We used to be able to add polylines or circles to an area that already had the drip area defined. We would just edit the hatch (just the AutoCAD bhatch command) and it would remove the areas. For some good reason (I'm sure), that doesn't work anymore. now we have to add the circles, polylines and redefine the areas.
It's good to hear that Jake the Wizard helped you out. He is a master!
Seaweed
It used to be easier to remove areas from the drip areas. We used to be able to add polylines or circles to an area that already had the drip area defined. We would just edit the hatch (just the AutoCAD bhatch command) and it would remove the areas. For some good reason (I'm sure), that doesn't work anymore. now we have to add the circles, polylines and redefine the areas.
It's good to hear that Jake the Wizard helped you out. He is a master!
Seaweed
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