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Errors: Irrigation

Error: The Polyline (or Polygon, Circle, etc.) Selected Contains Arcs or Segments (Placing a Hatch)

Error Accessing Equipment Data in the Project (Selecting or Editing Irrigation Equipment)

That Equipment is Already in the Project (Adding Equipment to a Project)

Unable to Locate Target Hatch Pattern (Placing a Hatch)

INVALID Error (Attempting to Place a Plant or Other Block)

You Already Have the Maximum Allowed of That Type of That Equipment in the Project (Adding Equipment to a Project)

Error: No Plants in Project, Unable to Assign Emitters (Placing Drip Emitters)

Legacy Area for Dripline Detected, Aborting Calculations. Please Update Dripline in Project (Editing an Area for Dripline)

Missing File Error (Using One of Our Tools)

AutoCAD Variable Settings Rejected: "CLAYER" ... (Running an Irrigation or Plant Schedule)

Error: Unhandled Exception

Error: File ... .dwg Was Created by an Incompatible Version of AutoCAD

Error: Valve ... Has No Precip Rate (Working With Irrigation Equipment or Pipes, or Placing an Irrigation or Watering Schedule)

Error: "Unhandled Exception in dcl-slideview-load ARX" (Placing a Plant, Irrigation Equipment, or a Site Object such as a Reference Note or Lighting Fixture)

Point(s) Selected Are Not Within Pipe Segment (Placing a Pipe Hop)

Error Creating Text Style "(Font)": Font File "(Font)" Not Installed (Using a Land F/X Tool, or Placing Text)

Error: Valves Called Out – 0 Valves Have Not Been Called Out (Using the Verify Mainline Tool)

Error: Pipe Segment Has Missing Connected Entities (Move Piped Equipment)

Divide by Zero Error (Sizing Lateral Pipes, Taking a Flow Total, or Using Highlight Station or Edit Equipment)

System Has No Flow Zones. Please Size the Mainline to Generate Flow Zone (Running a Runtime Schedule)

Error: Bad Argument Type: ListP (Running a Schedule)

Unsizeable Valve Encountered. Flow Velocity Has Been Reduced to Minimum, and Friction Loss Still Exceeds Allowable Pressure Variation

Unable to Reconstitute a Hatch Area, Quantity Will Be Inaccurate (Running a Schedule)

Error Executing Data Request: Data Too Long for Column 'Data_Code' (Sizing the Mainline)

Pressure Available at the POC Has Been Exceeded / Unable to Size Mainline (Sizing the Mainline)

Error: Zone Text Has Been Edited (Using the Circuiting Tool)

Error: Bad DXF Group: (62) (Working With Irrigation Equipment or Pipes)

You Must First Save the Block into the Plan Graphics Library Using the Save Block Tool (Editing or Viewing Information on a Plant Symbol or Other Block)

Bad DXF Group (10) (Placing an Object in a Drawing)

Script Error: An Error Has Occurred in the Script of This Page

Automation Error

Basic Troubleshooting: Irrigation

Drip Emitter Troubleshooting – Drip Area is Showing 0 GPM (0 Flow), Flow Rates are Inconsistent or Incorrect

Basic Land F/X Troubleshooting Checklist

Oversized Irrigation Head

Drip Emitter Areas (Areas for Drip Emitters) Showing Incorrect Emitter and/or Flow Quantities

Try to Duplicate an Issue or Error in a Blank Drawing

Basic Irrigation Troubleshooting

Schematic Irrigation Troubleshooting

Uniformity Tool is Not Producing the Correct Colors

Plotting Troubleshooting

When I Place Irrigation Symbols, They Come in Beneath the Schematic Irrigation Xref

Error: No Plants in Project, Unable to Assign Emitters (Placing Drip Emitters)

Irrigation F/X Says I Need More Pressure at the Source or POC Than I Think I Need

The Pressure and/or Flow are Too Low in Your Irrigation System after Sizing the Mainline: Troubleshooting

Verify Laterals: Heads That Appear to Be Piped are Highlighted in Green as Unpiped Heads

The Pressure Loss is Too High in Your Drip Control Valve or Drip Kit Valve

Valve Has No Precipitation Rate or Too High Precipitation Rate (When Running a Valve Schedule)

Work Area Troubleshooting

Identical Zones Have Different Precipitation Rates

Hatch is Too Dense, or Not Dense Enough (Hatch Scale Issues)

You Selected a Piece of Irrigation Equipment but Don't See Options for Selecting a Symbol

Schematic Irrigation

Schematic Irrigation List is Missing or Blank

Plot Solid Schematic Irrigation Hatches as Different Hatch Patterns

Auto-Hide Land F/X Manager Palettes (Including Plant, Grading, Zoning, Irrigation, Schematic, and Circuiting Managers)

Schematic Irrigation Troubleshooting

When I Place Irrigation Symbols, They Come in Beneath the Schematic Irrigation Xref

Metric Database Update (2022): Water Source or Schematic Area Numbers Extremely Off

Adding & Editing Equipment

CAD is Crashing When I Try to Access a Manufacturer's Equipment

Buttons Are Grayed Out in Manager Dialog Boxes / Can't Make Edits

Unable to Access Any Web Content (Can't Add Plants, Reference Notes, or Irrigation Equipment)

Oversized Irrigation Head

Error Accessing Equipment Data in the Project (Selecting or Editing Irrigation Equipment)

That Equipment is Already in the Project (Adding Equipment to a Project)

Can I Create an Irrigation Template or Palette?

Auto-Hide Land F/X Manager Palettes (Including Plant, Grading, Zoning, Irrigation, Schematic, and Circuiting Managers)

You Already Have the Maximum Allowed of That Type of That Equipment in the Project (Adding Equipment to a Project)

Using Project Templates: Not All Irrigation Equipment and Data are Updated

Changing Nozzle or Size Options in the Irrigation Manager: Selected Option Is Not Applied to Placed Equipment

Metric Database Update (2022): Precipitation Rates Extremely Low

The Pressure Loss is Too High in Your Drip Control Valve or Drip Kit Valve

Importing Plants, Concept Plants, Details, Reference Notes, or Irrigation Equipment Using Cloud Data: AutoCAD Freezes or Crashes

Metric Database Update (2022): Water Source or Schematic Area Numbers Extremely Off

Remove or Unassign a Detail from Irrigation Equipment

Specify a Particular Combination of Spray Body and Nozzle Type When Adding or Editing Heads

Entering Irrigation Data Manually

Specifying Equipment or Pipe That is Not in the Land F/X Database

Work Areas are Not Recognizing/Calculating Hatches Correctly

Creating a Custom Flow (GPM) for a Specific Valve

Equipment You've Added to a Project is Not Operating Correctly

Customize the Model Name for Equipment

You Selected a Piece of Irrigation Equipment but Don't See Options for Selecting a Symbol

Adding Custom Drip Emitter: No Symbols Available

Replacing Plant Symbols with Irrigation Symbols

Drip Description Text Not Allowing You to Delete Information

Can I Account for Pressure Loss in Equipment Added as a Custom Element?

You Must First Save the Block into the Plan Graphics Library Using the Save Block Tool (Editing or Viewing Information on a Plant Symbol or Other Block)

Placing Equipment

Wrong Irrigation Symbols Coming In – Drawing or Schedule

Placing a Rotor or Spray Head: You Don't See the Nozzle Size You Want

Irrigation Equipment or Components Connecting Automatically

Sprinkler Heads' Insertion Points Seem to be Slightly Offset From Each Other

Auto-Hide Land F/X Manager Palettes (Including Plant, Grading, Zoning, Irrigation, Schematic, and Circuiting Managers)

When I Place Irrigation Symbols, They Come in Beneath the Schematic Irrigation Xref

Remove Hatch from Internal Objects Within a Hatched Area

Align or Rotate Valves and Other Mainline Equipment Symbols to the Orientation of the Mainline Pipe

Exclude Trees from an Area for Drip Emitters or Dripline

Missing File Error (Using One of Our Tools)

Error: File ... .dwg Was Created by an Incompatible Version of AutoCAD

Placing Area For Dripline: Hatch Coming In Solid Instead of With the Appropriate Drip Pattern

Error: "Unhandled Exception in dcl-slideview-load ARX" (Placing a Plant, Irrigation Equipment, or a Site Object such as a Reference Note or Lighting Fixture)

Using Civil 3D: Callouts, Blocks or Details Scale Incorrectly When Placed After Editing

Selection Dialog Box Opens When You Place a Land F/X Object or Pipe to Irrigation Equipment

Outside Limits Message in Command Line / Cannot Place Blocks / Blocks Not Visible in Model Space

Rescale (Resize) Objects or Hatches After Setting the Scale

Drip Equipment

Drip Hatch Disappears

Drip Emitter Troubleshooting – Drip Area is Showing 0 GPM (0 Flow), Flow Rates are Inconsistent or Incorrect

High Flow (GPM) Calculated in Your Drip Valves

Drip Tubing Calculations Are Incorrect (Too High)

Unable to Pipe or Connect to Drip Emitter Area

Error: No Plants in Project, Unable to Assign Emitters (Placing Drip Emitters)

Exclude Trees from an Area for Drip Emitters or Dripline

The Pressure Loss is Too High in Your Drip Control Valve or Drip Kit Valve

Placing Area For Dripline: Hatch Coming In Solid Instead of With the Appropriate Drip Pattern

If I Attach a Point Emitter to the Drip Line for Additional Watering, Will the Additional Flow in the Lateral Pipe Sizing Be Included?

Adding Custom Drip Emitter: No Symbols Available

Drip Description Text Not Allowing You to Delete Information

Drip Hatch Pattern (Drip-Patt) is Not Showing Up in Paper Space

Symbols, Blocks & Hatches

Drip Hatch Disappears

Plot Solid Schematic Irrigation Hatches as Different Hatch Patterns

Get the Latest Irrigation Blocks

Calculate Total Irrigated Area or Zone Area (Feet or Meters) in Irrigation Plan

Sizes of Heads or Equipment Do Not Reflect Changes Made to Scale

Align or Rotate Valves and Other Mainline Equipment Symbols to the Orientation of the Mainline Pipe

Irrigation Symbols in Different Sizes / Scales for Same Equipment Model

Blank Preview Slide (Editing Equipment) or Old Block Definition (Selecting an Irrigation Symbol)

Irrigation Symbol Letters/Attributes/Text Not Centered or Offset

Irrigation Symbols Displaying as the Incorrect Family

How to Change Head Type While Selecting New Symbols

Edit the Coverage Radius Block of a Head

Rotor Nozzle Sizes Not Visible in Plan but Visible in Irrigation Schedule

Heads are Placing at the Correct Size but Spray Arcs are the Incorrect Size

Irrigation Head Symbols' Background Masks Going to Top of Draw Order (AutoCAD 2019)

Blocks Coming In at the Wrong Scale & Issues with Block Scale

Lateral Pipe Running Through Middle of Spray Heads (No Background Mask)

Turn Sprinkler Head Arcs On or Off

Hatches Are Appearing Incorrectly or Showing Up as Random Lines or Solid Colors

Replacing Plant Symbols with Irrigation Symbols

Existing Irrigation Symbols in Drawing, but Data was Removed. How to Re-Associate?

Symbols Not Changing When Switching from Turf Spray to Shrub Spray

Irrigation Symbols (Blocks, Text, and Background Masks) Showing Up All White, or Letters or Numbers Are Not Visible Within the Symbols

You Want to Rotate Placed Irrigation Symbols (Heads, Valves, etc.) to Match a New UCS Rotation

Unable to Select a New Irrigation Symbol

Different Fonts or Font Sizes in Identical Pieces of Irrigation Equipment

Irrigation Heads: Make Spray Radius Lines Visible When Plotting

Valve Symbol is Plotting Incorrectly

Irrigation Symbols are Plotting in Color Instead of Black

Drip Hatch Pattern (Drip-Patt) is Not Showing Up in Paper Space

Piping

Error When Using Circuit: Zone Font Not Installed

CAD Becomes Extremely Slow, or Cursor Lags or Becomes Jumpy, During Piping

Unable to Pipe or Connect to Drip Emitter Area

When You Pipe to a Head, the "Snap" Point is Wrong

Lateral Pipe Not Snapping Properly to Heads When Using XHair or Ortho

Lateral Line Jumps or Hops Whether or Not You Are Using Autosnap

Pickbox and Pipe Extension Reacting Differently With Different Heads

Pipe Data Defaults Not Saving or Sticking

Mainline or Lateral Pipe Symbol Has Incorrect Linetype in Irrigation Schedule (Solid, Dashed, etc.)

Verify Laterals: Heads That Appear to Be Piped are Highlighted in Green as Unpiped Heads

Switch Pipe Classes in Your Drawing

Point(s) Selected Are Not Within Pipe Segment (Placing a Pipe Hop)

Use Custom Linetypes for Different Pipe Sizes (Lateral and Mainline)

Selection Dialog Box Opens When You Place a Land F/X Object or Pipe to Irrigation Equipment

Mainline Coming In Too Thick

Pipe Counts Incorrect in Work Areas

Zooming to Extents Deletes Irrigation Zones (Circuiting Tool)

Error: Pipe Segment Has Missing Connected Entities (Move Piped Equipment)

Circuit Zones Not Matching Valve Callout Flows (Circuiting Tool)

Uniformity Tool: Issue With Region Creation / Colors Showing White

Critical Analysis is Wrong

Pressure Loss for the Master Valve Is Not Appearing in the Critical Analysis

Pipe Sizing

Unable to Size System (Unsizeable System)

I Can't Size the Mainline! (Mainline Sizing Troubleshooting)

Sizing a Looped Mainline

Irrigation Equipment or Components Connecting Automatically

Sizing Mainline: Drawing Freezes During "Recursing Pipe"

Sizing Mainline: Recursing Pipe Process Taking an Extremely Long Time

Pressure Rate of 999 PSI When Sizing Mainline

Irrigation F/X Says I Need More Pressure at the Source or POC Than I Think I Need

The Pressure and/or Flow are Too Low in Your Irrigation System after Sizing the Mainline: Troubleshooting

Pipe Data Defaults Not Saving or Sticking

Repair Your Pipe Data (Pipes Sizing Backward, or With a Size You Haven't Selected)

Size the Mainline Manually Using Caps

Pipe Sizes or Pressure/Flow Units Are In the Wrong Measurement System (Metric, Imperial, etc.)

If I Attach a Point Emitter to the Drip Line for Additional Watering, Will the Additional Flow in the Lateral Pipe Sizing Be Included?

Lateral Pipe Categories/Classes Are Not Sizing to Your Needs, or You Want to Size Your Laterals According to Zone Type

Flow Rate (GPM) Discrepancy Between Size Lateral Pipes Dialog Box and Circuiting or Highlight Station Tool

Can I Use a 1 1/4-Inch Mainline With a 1-Inch Solenoid Valve and an Output to a 2-Inch Lateral Line in a 20.9 GPM Zone?

Divide by Zero Error (Sizing Lateral Pipes, Taking a Flow Total, or Using Highlight Station or Edit Equipment)

Run Multiple Valves at a Time

Sizing Lateral Pipes: New Spray Coverage Regions Appearing on Xref Layer Each Time Your Resize

Critical Analysis is Wrong

Error Executing Data Request: Data Too Long for Column 'Data_Code' (Sizing the Mainline)

Pressure Loss for the Master Valve Is Not Appearing in the Critical Analysis

Pressure Available at the POC Has Been Exceeded / Unable to Size Mainline (Sizing the Mainline)

Irrigation Callouts

Valve Callout Shows Wrong Valve Size or Displays Strange Characters

Create a Multiline Attribute for a Callout

Fixing Font/Text Style Issues in Callouts or Labels

Pipe Labels and Pipe Sleeve Labels Have Boxes and Background Masks Around Them

Callout Arrows or Solid Hatches are Hollow, Not Solid, or Display as Lines Only

Text in Plant Labels, Site Callouts, Irrigation Callouts, or Detail Callouts Not Showing Up

Invalid Input Message (Placing MLeader Callouts, or Working with Groundcovers)

Using Civil 3D: Callouts, Blocks or Details Scale Incorrectly When Placed After Editing

View the Full Text Formatting Toolbar for Multiline Attributes

Text Appearing Too Large or Small / Scaled Incorrectly (Including Callouts and Schedules)

Callouts or Annotations Appearing Behind Hatches in Paper Space

Rescale (Resize) Objects or Hatches After Setting the Scale

Some of My Labels or Callouts are Not Resizing When I Rescale

Irrigation Schedules

Valve Schedule: Excessive Precip Rate in One Station

Wrong Irrigation Symbols Coming In – Drawing or Schedule

Wire Lengths Are Blank in the Valve Schedule

Unable to Run a Schedule for an Entire Drawing that Contains Work Areas

Your Screen Flashes Several Times When You Place a Schedule in Paper Space

Incorrect Precipitation Rates Appearing in the Watering or Runtime Schedule

Points of Connection (POCs) Showing Up With Duplicate Numbers or Letters in Runtime Schedule Dialog Box

You Want Your Schedule Text in Uppercase (All Capital Letters)

Multiple Irrigation Schedules

How Can I Create an Estimate or Add Pricing to Materials for Irrigation?

Mainline or Lateral Pipe Symbol Has Incorrect Linetype in Irrigation Schedule (Solid, Dashed, etc.)

Irrigation Symbols Showing Off Center in Schedule

Create a Background Fill or Mask for Schedules

AutoCAD Variable Settings Rejected: "CLAYER" ... (Running an Irrigation or Plant Schedule)

Updated Table Schedule Format: Difficulties Making Manual Edits

Error: Valve ... Has No Precip Rate (Working With Irrigation Equipment or Pipes, or Placing an Irrigation or Watering Schedule)

Identical Zones Have Different Precipitation Rates

Incorrect Text Style in Schedule Text or Title

Non-Plot Gridlines in Table Style Schedule Showing Up Gray or Invisible

Unknown Irrigation Equipment Is Appearing on the Schedule, and I'm Not Sure Why/Where It Is

Pipe Counts Incorrect in Work Areas

Irrigation Schedule Does Not Show All Your Equipment

Irrigation Schedule Shows a Duplicate Symbol and Quantity for Certain Equipment

Text Appearing Too Large or Small / Scaled Incorrectly (Including Callouts and Schedules)

System Has No Flow Zones. Please Size the Mainline to Generate Flow Zone (Running a Runtime Schedule)

Error: Bad Argument Type: ListP (Running a Schedule)

The Irrigation Schedule is Too Wide – Text Wrap Issues?

Irrigation Schedule Is Not Grouping Equipment / Is Listing the Same Equipment in Separate Lines

Unable to Reconstitute a Hatch Area, Quantity Will Be Inaccurate (Running a Schedule)

Multiple Points of Connection (POCs) in Plan: List Only One POC in Irrigation Schedule

Incorrect Symbol in the Irrigation Schedule

Boxes Displayed Instead of Text

Multiple Pipe Instances in Irrigation Schedule

Irrigation Schedule Shows Wrong Pipe Class for a Pipe Sleeve

Schedule for Work Area Does Not Appear or Can't Be Placed

Run a Single Schedule Categorized by Work Area

Rearrange Columns in a Schedule (Plant Schedule, Irrigation Schedule, Reference Notes Schedule, Etc.)

Change the Text Size in Schedule Columns or Rows (Table Format)

Change the Widths of Schedule Columns (Table Format)

Create a Macro in MS Excel for a Schedule

Edit a Work Area Name to Change a Schedule Title

Customizing Irrigation

Create a Multiline Attribute for a Callout

Pipe Data Defaults Not Saving or Sticking

Your Custom True Colors are No Longer Visible or Available

Irrigation General Info

Can Irrigation F/X Integrate with CIT's Space Pro Software?

Does Irrigation F/X Include Agricultural Irrigation?