Irrigation F/X: Impossible or Possible
March 13, 2020
Presented by: Jake Lott
Length: 1:08:24
Are you faced with a particular task or process, and you're wondering whether Irrigation F/X can handle it? Bring us your most puzzling, confounding challenges, and try to stump our irrigation experts with your impossible (or so you may think) requests. Find out if Irrigation F/X can handle the pinnacles of complexity and perplexity in irrigation design.
Webinar Contents:
Note: The following catalog of content covered in this webinar is time stamped to allow you to follow along or skip to sections of the video that are relevant to your questions. You can also search for content on this page using the FIND command in your browser (CTRL + F in Windows, Command + F in Mac OS.)
- Intro/TOC
- Poll for the Masses
- Understanding the Skepticism
- Your Voice Matters
0:00 – 3:34: Intro/TOC
3:35 – 8:09: Poll for the Masses
Think about your workflow and design process:
- What is most important to you when doing an irrigation design?
- What are some of the challenges you come across?
- What could be improved with your workflow?
8:10 – 14:32: Understanding the Skepticism
Why give Irrigation F/X a try (11:10)
What’s the worst that could happen?
- You find something within the software that is wrong
- You find something the software can’t do
14:33 – end: Your Voice Matters
We listen to our users, turning user requests into features. See our Update History page. (14:50)
Chart: addition of lines of code to our software over the years (14:50)
Examples of features we’ve added as a result of clients’ requests:
- Flow zones for mainline sizing
- Single length dripline
- Move piped equipment
- Runtime Schedule
- Polydivide
- Copy Along tools
Our goal (18:20):
Make a platform that:
- Is easier to use
- Gives you a net benefit in time savings
- Helps create solid, accurate, and professional designs
Demonstration in CAD (21:25)
Correcting errors with valve callouts (example: If you miss calling out a valve and call it out later, the valve callout umbers will update incrementally if you choose.) (23:40)
Runtime Schedule demonstration (27:00)
Selecting specific manufacturers’ equipment and setting the performance data (30:20)
Using our Spot Elevation tool to design a site with varying elevation and deal with the resulting pressure variations (32:00)
Sizing the lateral pipe and clicking on a valve callout (34:45)
Using the Station Analysis to check the stats of a valve (37:15)
Sizing the mainline and using Spot Elevations (37:40)
Checking the Critical Analysis and using the Locate Valve tool to find and correct issues with a specific valve (38:40)
Correcting elevations (39:45)
Valve Schedule demonstration (43:00)
Assigning Spot Elevations to contours automatically using a grid (44:40)
Tying into an existing system (46:40)
Using pipe caps for future use (47:20)
Using a system monitor to determine available flow and pressure from an existing system (50:40)
Accounting for proposed changes in a design (54:10)
Using the Schematic Irrigation tool to create a conceptual plan (54:40)
Placing an Irrigation Schedule to analyze the schematic plan (56:30)
Using Work Areas to apply a schedule to only a portion of a design (57:30)
Breaking a design up into different sheets (1:01:50)
Creating a new Work Area for each sheet (1:05:00)
Creating a different User Coordinate System (UCS) for each Work Area (1:05:30)