Some times, most common with concrete conduits, the node invert needs to have a drop in reference to the lowest pipe to acomodate its wall. This would later be filled to match.
For construction and BIM purpose, this difference is important. Specially with large conduits, over 1,50m in diamenter, or galaries that can have wall thickness up to 20cm.
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Please, consider changing the status or should I add a new idea?
Hi,
Getting back to this topic after some trials.
The feature was implemented, but it still missing some core functions.
What it does now, is add the drop on a design scenario. If the setting is turned on in a analysis run, the 3D geometry/inverts won't respect the wall drop, but it will consider them for the calculos. That results in some pretty strange hydraulic profiles, kind of a bunch of stair steps at each node.
The best workflow for this settings would be for it to be considerated during the placement/construction of the networks, NOT when running the calculate tool.
If it only affects after a calculate run, if it is a design, it will add the wall drops, if it is a analysis, it will not edit the inverts, but consider the wall for hydraulics, resulting in most of the conduit having negative slopes.