Designing with Drip

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• Intro/TOC
• Understanding Your Equipment
• Categorizing Equipment in Land F/X
• Adding Equipment to Your Project
• How to Place Drip Equipment
• Drawing and Sizing Lateral Pipe
• Plan vs. Detail

0:00 – 3:34: Intro/TOC

We recommend watching our guest webinar Drip Irrigation Selection presented by Shelly Walker of GPH Irrigation. This presentation covers:

• Types of drip
• Where drip is used
• How to know what type of drip to use
• What to think about when picking equipment

3:35 – 9:04: Understanding Your Equipment

Performance driven vs. clarification & aesthetics (3:42)

 

Performance-driven equipment (4:12):

• Bubblers
• Emitters
• Micro sprays
• In-line drip
• Drip kits (valves)

 

Clarification & aesthetics (4:50)

• Air relief/flush valves
• Drip indicators
• Distribution (blank) tubing)

 

Drip kit valves: Chart showing required dynamic pressure vs. design flow (5:30)

9:05 – 13:56: Categorizing Equipment in Land F/X

Drip classification terminology (9:10):

• Area for Drip Emitters
• Custom emitters
• Individual emitters
• Area for Dripline (dripperline)

 

Drip component terminology (9:57):

• Drip control valve/filter/regulator
• Drip air relief valve
• Pipe transition point
• Flush cap/valve (optional)

 

Areas for Drip Emitters (10:55)

• Can account for proper flow without cluttering the drawing
• Account for proper quantity of emitters
• Quicker to draft
• Save the detail for the detail

Caveat: Areas for Drip Emitters have certain limitations and may sometimes not be part of the best approach to your design.

13:57 – 21:13: Adding Equipment to Your Project

Options in the Irrigation Preferences (14:55)

• Dripline hatch scaled at new spacing
• Include drip line perimeter in flow calcs

 

Drip section of the Irrigation Manager (17:17)

Note that bubblers are in the Heads section.

 

Tools for placing drip equipment in the F/X Irrigation ribbon (17:50)

Note also that the Bubbler tool is a flout of the Standard button on the ribbon.

 

Adding drip equipment to a project (example: drip emitters) (18:05)

 

Creating a custom tree ring emitter (18:30)

 

Selecting a symbol (20:18)

 

Assigning a detail to a drip component (20:25)

 

 

21:14 – 42:44: How to Place Drip Equipment

 

 

Placing a drip component (21:14)

 

Editing a drip component (21:30)

 

Using the Highlight tool to copy and paste all instances of a tree from an Xrefed planting plan to the irrigation plan (22:00)

 

Using the Match Properties tool to convert all instances of that tree into tree rings in the irrigation plan (22:50)

 

Adding and placing an Area for Drip Emitters (23:40)

 

Setting up different emitters for different plant container sizes (24:40)

 

Zoning options for trees within a drip emitter area in order to exclude them from the emitter area (27:00):

• Don’t assign emitters to the trees, and the system won’t recognize them
• Create a container size specifically for trees that won’t be recognized

 

Placing an Area for Drip Emitters (28:00)

You can either draw emitter areas on the fly or assign them to existing closed polylines.

 

Using the Boundary command to create a boundary for a region in a drawing, then assigning a drip emitter area to that boundary (28:55)

 

Question: Is it possible to have Areas for Drip Emitters look at water requirements rather than container sizes to calculate the flow, for plants with different water requirements? (29:40)

Answer: This is a pending wishlist item as of webinar time. Stay tuned!

 

Question: When I copy and paste new trees into an irrigation plan and use the Match Properties tool like you showed, should I delete the original plants? (30:56)

Answer: No, those plants aren’t plants anymore – the tool turns them into bubblers.

 

Placing the drip emitter area (31:50)

Drip emitter areas will generate their own flow rates automatically.

 

How drip emitter areas are listed in the Irrigation Schedule (32:30)

• Breakdown of their total square footage (or meters)
• Emitter notes (e.g., container sizes and flats)
• Number of emitters

 

Adding an Area for Dripline (33:15)

 

Row spacing and emitter spacing for dripline areas (34:20)

 

Placing an Area for Dripline (34:50)

 

Splitting up dripline and drip emitter areas using the POLYDIVIDE tool (35:45)

 

 

Question: If we are consistently using drip rings for tree irrigation, is there a way to place the tree symbol and the tree drip ring symbol at the same time? (41:45)

Answer: No, there isn’t. The planting plan and irrigation plan should be in different files. You can then Xref the planting plan into the irrigation plan.

42:45 – 56:59: Drawing and Sizing Lateral Pipe

 

Adding and placing a drip control valve (42:45)

 

Piping to drip areas using the Draw Lateral Pipe tool (44:35)

Note that the flow rate of each drip area will be accounted for automatically when you pipe to it.

 

Calling out and sizing the drip control valves (47:35)

 

Piping from one drip area to another (48:55)

Note that if you want the system to recognize these types of connections, you need to pipe to a separate fitting within each area rather than just piping through the areas.

 

Adding, placing, and piping to pipe transition points (51:30)

Pipe transition points will show up in the Irrigation Schedule.

57:00 – end: Plan vs. Detail

Assigning details to drip equipment (57:00)

A detail of a component can help clarify your intent in using that type of equipment in your design.

 

Assigning a detail callout to a drip area (57:55)

 

Question: If I want multiple zones of equal flow, can I pipe all heads together and then use POLYDIVIDE to divide them equally?

Answer: No, POLYDIVIDE does not work in this way. Instead, we recommend using our Circuiting tool to structure your zones evenly.

 

Question: If I have multiple points of connection, can I size the mainline without having to zoom out and navigate the water meter? (1:01:26)

Answer: Yes you can. You’ll be asked to select a POC when you size the mainline, or you can select all POCs by right-clicking.