Pipes
Weir tool
This tool, , is used to draw multiple outlets from detention basins, even when these are subject to tailwater influences. Like the orifice tool, it is only available with the Full Unsteady Hydraulic Model. These objects link a detention basin to a ...
Survey Data property sheet
In this window you can add information on ground surface levels at points along a pipe between the end manholes and the locations of other services that may conflict with a pipeline. The data tables are for a particular pipe that is named in the ...
Stream routing reach tool
This link type, , is used to connect nodes and sub-catchments in RORB and WBNM storage routing models that can be used to model broad-scale rural and urban catchments. It performs non-linear routing in these models (the RAFTS storage routing model ...
Pump tool
This tool, , enables you to draw a pump in the Main Window. Pumping from a detention basin can be modelled using this object, which should go from the basin to a node, pit or another detention basin. The pump property sheet sets out the information ...
Pipes
These are conduits for water that are closed, and are usually circular in cross-section. The circular shape provides the greatest area for a given perimeter, and is the most efficient shape for resisting friction. In urban stormwater drainage ...
Pipe drawing tool
This tool allows you to enter a circular or rectangular pipe in the Main Window. This can connect various components such as pits, detention basins and culverts. When you click on this tool, the arrow cursor changes to a pencil. Click the pointer on ...
Pipe long section
A section of a single pipe reach, showing surface, obvert and invert levels, other pipe characteristics and results of analyses, can be opened using the Long Section option in the pop-up menu for a pipe. Greater amounts of detail can be added by ...
Pipe data base property sheet
This window allows you to set up or review a pipe type and individual pipe sizes. From this main window, the following pipe type dialog box can be opened by clicking the Add or Properties buttons in the upper part of the dialog box. It is necessary ...
Overflow Route drawing tool
This tool, , is used to draw lines or poly-lines in the the Main Window, representing the paths of overflows from pits and detention basins to downstream pits and nodes, or those going out of the system. It is also used to define flow paths or ...
Culvert drawing tool (obsolete)
This tool has been discarded by DRAINS, and will only appear if it is part of a model created before November 2012. It has been replaced by the combination of a headwall, pipe and overflow route When you right-click this culvert object, a small menu ...
Culvert property sheet (obsolete)
This window displays the information for a culvert specified as a single object , a form that is now obsolete and not available for new DRAINS projects. For these, enter a headwall, pipe, overflow route and node, as shown below. In the property sheet ...