Verify Laterals or Verify Mainline Taking a Long Time

Issue

You're trying to use our Verify Laterals or Verify Mainline tool, but the tool is taking an excessively long time to complete.

Cause

This issue can have several potential causes, including:

• Drawing corruption
• Uncleaned Zoom Extents
• UCS not set to World
• Design distance from 0,0
• Unnecessary Xrefs loaded in the drawing
• Irrigation equipment with Z elevations
• A large design with many separate drip zones
• Excessive numbers of drip zone boundary vertices

Solution

Step 1: Initial troubleshooting.

1A. Follow our steps to clean your drawing and all Xrefs manually.

1B. Review your drawing further by zooming to extents.

1C. Open our User Coordinate System (UCS) tool and set the UCS to World.

1D. Relocate your design near 0,0. Objects placed a large distance from 0,0 can cause slow performance with our Verify tools, as it affects how the system functions when you use them.

1E. Ensure that all Xrefs are unloaded.

Step 2 (if necessary): Check for irrigation equipment with Z elevations.

2A. Type PROP in the Command line and press Enter to open the Properties panel.

2B. Open the Irrigation Manager and select a piece of equipment in the list, then click the Highlight button to highlight all instances of the selected equipment in your drawing.

 

With the Highlight feature still active, type S in the Command line to select all highlighted equipment.

2C. Check the Properties panel to ensure all equipment in the drawing is located at 0 elevation (or Z value).

 

If not, set this value to 0.

 

 

2D. Complete Step 2 for all equipment in the drawing.

Check items such as pipe and pipe fittings by selecting them in the drawing and then right-clicking and choosing Select similar from the menu that opens. For all equipment, check the Properties panel to ensure your equipment has no elevation other than 0.

Step 3 (if necessary): Check for an excessive number of vertices in your drip areas.

Drip area borders can sometimes include too many vertices – often when the drip area was created by selecting a spline or polyline with arcs.

 

To resolve this issue, select a drip area with excessive vertices and use our PolyOptimize tool to minimize the number of vertices in their borders.

Step 4 (if necessary): Use Work Areas when running the Verify tools.

At this point, you may be dealing with one of the following situations:

• Our Verify Laterals tool is still taking a long time, or
• You're working in a large plan with dozens of zones, or
• Your plan contains a large number of drip areas.

In any of these cases, we recommend using Work Areas to run Verify Laterals on smaller sections of your drawing at a time.