Irrigation Manager

• Irrigation Manager Overview
• Adding Equipment to Your Projects
• Editing Equipment
  • Selecting an Equipment Size
• Show Components
• Highlighting (Locating) Equipment in Your Drawing
• Undocking the Irrigation Manager
• Deleting Equipment
• Related Webinars
• Troubleshooting
  • General Irrigation Equipment Troubleshooting
  • Heads (Sprinklers) Troubleshooting
  • Valves Troubleshooting
  • Auxiliary Equipment Troubleshooting

The Irrigation Manager organizes and displays irrigation equipment and components, allows for adding or importing irrigation data, and controls the water source data and pipe type and data.

 

 

For information on customizing your irrigation settings, see our Irrigation Preferences documentation.

Irrigation Manager

Open the Irrigation Manager:

 

 

F/X Irrigation ribbon, Irrigation button

 

 

 

 

 

The Irrigation Manager will open.

 

 

8. Highlight each instance of the selected component in your drawing. If you have the Show Components option is checked, you can highlight only the selected size or nozzle.

 

9. Select a component, then click View Data to open a Web page and go to the manufacturer's literature on that equipment.

 

10. Select a component, then click Detail to set a detail to be associated with this component and automatically add that detail to your project's Detail Manager.

 

11. Place the selected equipment in your drawing.

 

12. Place an Irrigation Schedule.

Adding Equipment to Your Projects

For information on adding specific equipment types to your projects, see our documentation on adding:

• Heads (emitters)
• Valves
• Drip equipment
• Auxiliary equipment

Editing Equipment

Click Edit in the Irrigation Manager to edit data associated with a selected piece of equipment.

 

 

 

The Equipment Info dialog box will open.

 

 

 

 

 

Selecting an Equipment Size

Although you will be able to make a selection from the Size menu, the new size won't actually be applied to your equipment if you edit from the Irrigation Manager. (This is an unfortunate necessity of engineering this dialog box.) Instead, you have two options for selecting a new equipment size:

 

 

Selecting an Equipment Size, Option 1: Use the Specific Tool for the Selected Equipment

Depending on the type of equipment you are placing, use the appropriate tool for placing that equipment.

 

 

This can include:

• Spray heads
• Rotary heads
• Rotor heads
• Drip emitters and heads
• Auxiliary equipment

 

When you select one of these tools, a dialog box will open listing the equipment of that type.

 

 

 

 

 

Selecting an Equipment Size, Option 2: Check the Box to "Show Components"

You can also select an equipment size from directly within the Irrigation Manager by checking the box to Show Components.

 

 

As shown above, the various sizes of each component in the selected category (Heads, Valves, Auxiliary Equipment, or Drip) will populate in the list. You can then select a size and click Place to place that size of the selected equipment.

We purposely engineered this feature to not include all sizes of each piece of added equipment by default – mainly because it makes the list of added equipment inordinately long.

Show Components

The Irrigation Manager includes a Show Components option. If you check this option, the list of added equipment will also include all available options for each piece of equipment. These include possible nozzles, as well as any available sizes of each component.

As pictured above, checking the Show Components option results in an excessively long list of added equipment. (The example above shows the available components for just one piece of equipment.) Unless you absolutely need to see all available components, we recommend leaving this option unchecked.

Highlighting (Locating) Equipment in Your Drawing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undocking the Irrigation Manager

The Irrigation Manager is a docked palette by default. To find out how to undock it, see our docking and undocking the Irrigaiton Manager and Schematic Irrigation / Circuiting palette documentation.

Deleting Equipment

To delete a component from your project, highlight it in the Irrigation Manager and click Delete.

 

Related Webinars

• Irrigation for Beginners: We'll show how to navigate through the Irrigation ribbon and build a familiarity with our conceptual-level tools. You'll also learn the basics of adding equipment to a project, placing, piping, sizing, and scheduling. (1 hr 45 min)
• Getting Started with Irrigation F/X: Join us for this webinar to get going with the essential capabilities of Irrigation F/X. We'll show how to navigate through the Irrigation ribbon and build a familiarity with our conceptual-level tools. You'll also learn the basics of adding equipment to a project, placing, piping, sizing, and scheduling. (1 hr 8 min)
• Start to Finish Basics of Irrigation Design: This webinar will help give you an understanding of how to specify the proper equipment, talk about important concepts of irrigation design, and create a complete irrigation plan from start to finish. (1 hr 31 min)
• Irrigation Tools – What You Need to Know: We'll show you the ins and outs of basic irrigation setup using our software. You'll also learn the essentials of placing equipment such as drip, sprays, and rotors. (1 hr 6 min)
• Irrigation Tips & Tricks: We'll show you some advanced tools you may or may not know about. You'll also learn techniques and best practices that will help speed up your workflow. (1 hr 3 min)
• Existing Irrigation: Learn the techniques, tools, and tricks you'll need to expand an existing system, including how to use a pipe cap to account for existing flow and add new valves to an existing mainline. (56 min)
• Advanced Irrigation Troubleshooting: Learn to think like a Land F/X irrigation troubleshooter. We'll show you why your symbols don't match, why you would see the message "Error accessing equipment data" (and how to fix these issues, as well as tips on pressure losses and precip rates, pipe caps, system monitors, and flow zones. (1 hr 3 min)
• Golf Course Irrigation: We'll demonstrate some of the great tools Irrigation F/X offers to help ensure proper mainline sizing and scheduling. We'll also discuss the use of using flow zones, shut-off valves, and valve-in-head rotors. (1 hr 4 min)
• Efficient Irrigation for Small Spaces: Chris Roesink from Hunter takes you through the challenges of and solutions to irrigating in restricted areas. (1 hr 8 min)

Troubleshooting

General Irrigation Equipment Troubleshooting

Issue: When you try to select an equipment size from the Irrigation Manager, the size of the equipment doesn't change when you place it

 

Issue: You need to specify (add) equipment that is not currently in our database

 

Issue: CAD is crashing when you try to access a manufacturer's equipment

 

Issue: Error accessing equipment data in the project

 

Issue: Two identical pieces of irrigation equipment seem to have different font types or sizes in their callouts

 

Issue: Wrong irrigation symbols coming in

 

Issue: When you place heads or other equipment, they are coming in at the wrong scale

 

Issue: After you select a piece of equipment, you don't see any options for selecting a symbol

 

Issue: Specify (add) equipment that is not currently in our database

 

Issue: Bad DXF group (10) error when placing irrigation equipment

 

Issue: You are unable to select a new symbol for a piece of irrigation equipment

 

 

 

Heads (Sprinklers) Troubleshooting

Issue: I want to replace plant symbols with bubbler symbols so that, when I go to pipe the bubblers, the system will recognize them

 

Question: After I select a head, I don't see any options for selecting a head symbol. Am I missing a library item?

 

Issue: I received a "No Symbol" message when selecting heads, such as rotors or rotary equipment, to add to a project

 

Question: Is there a good way to show that a particular spray head is on a riser in an irrigation plan?

 

Issue: When I pipe to a head, the "snap" point is wrong

 

Issue: After I select a head, I don't see any options for selecting a head symbol. Am I missing a library item?

 

Issue: One of my heads is coming in oversized. All others seem to be fine.

 

Issue: The letters or attributes of your heads (such as rotors) are not centered

 

Issue: When you place heads or other equipment, they are coming in at the wrong scale

 

Issue: You want to make the spray radius lines of your heads visible when you plot or plot preview

 

Issue: Several buttons in the Irrigation Manager are grayed out and inaccessible

 

Issue: You tried to change from turf spray to shrub spray, but the symbols are not changing

 

Issue: Error: You already have the maximum allowed of that type of that equipment in the project (when adding heads, valves, or other equipment to a project)

 

Valves Troubleshooting

Issue: A valve in my drawing has either no precipitation rate or too high of a precipitation rate

 

Question: Can I create a dummy valve and assign it a GPM?

 

Issue: After I select a valve, I don't see any options for selecting a valve symbol. Am I missing a library item?

 

Auxiliary Equipment Troubleshooting

Question: Does the software account for pressure loss in equipment added as a custom element, such as a flow sensor?

 

Issue: After you select a piece of equipment (for example, a booster pump), you don't see any options for selecting a symbol

 

Drip Equipment Troubleshooting

Question: If I attach a point emitter to the drip line for additional watering, will the additional flow be included in the lateral pipe sizing?

 

Issue: A drip area isn't reading plants in the Xref

 

Issue: A drip area isn't reading groundcovers

 

Issue: Error: No Plants in the Project, Unable to Assign Emitters when attempting to place an Area for Drip Emitters

 

Issue: Polyline selected has arc segments – it must consist of only line segments

 

Issue: Remove or unassign a detail from irrigation equipment

 

Issue: Drip emitter areas in your drawing are showing the incorrect emitter quantity or flow rate

 

Issue: CAD crashes or freezes as soon as you open the Irrigation Manager

 

Issue: Error: Legacy area for dripline detected, aborting calculations. Please update dripline in project (when editing an Area for Dripline)

 

Issue: When you place a rotary head in your drawing, it's appearing with a different symbol from existing placed versions of that rotary, or with a different symbol from the one shown in the Irrigation Manager

 

Issue: Error: Bad argument type: lentityp nil when attempting to edit or replace a rotor

 

Issue: You want to use Imperial valve sizes, but your drawing is set to metric units

 

Issue: You want to change the symbols assigned to rotary heads you've already added to your project and placed in your drawing