Vertical Curve in Pipe

[gleiper]

Desiging a force main sewer line...project engineer wants to add vertical curve to pipe to avoid existing utility conflicts.
Anybody know how, or if, you can create vertical curves in pipe networks?
Any suggestions for a work around?
Thanks.

[rkmcswain]

Desiging a force main sewer line...project engineer wants to add vertical curve to pipe to avoid existing utility conflicts.
Anybody know how, or if, you can create vertical curves in pipe networks?
Any suggestions for a work around?
Thanks.

Pressure pipes available in C3D2013.
Otherwise, I don't know any workaround.
We still draw ours manually due to no real good solution.

[tntdraftsol]

Just as a suggestion, if you could get away with just drawing say the flow line of the sewer main you could use what some would call a road profile to get your vertical curve in there, but that could be more trouble than it's worth.

[BlackBox]

We generally draw outs as well... But for jobs that required significant directional drilling, I've used Profile creation tools with a Profile View to trace dumb line work as my top of pipe, then when the top of pipe has been layed out I copy it down the appropriate depth for my bottom of pipe.

Not really beneficial if like we used to, use one profile view and labeled the profile elevations within our sheet's title block, but if you either generate multiple Profile Views, or one Profile View within each sheet depending on an appropriate Profile View Style (usually the elevations on side overlap), then the above suggestion works all as it too is data referenced and can automatically show up in all Profile Views.

Depends on how you work.

Separately, this reminds me that I need to continue working on my directional drill utility plug-in... I've been waiting to see Civil 3D 2014 (post Beta), before spending anymore time on it.

Cheers