Novapoint Water & Sewer Library

What

Use this function for the following:

• To calculate cross-sections and/or quantities of selected trenches of the active Water and Sewer project.
• To define the sub-surface layers of the terrain.
• To define the calculation interval, intermediate stations (extra stations), terrain boundary, quantity boundaries, bulking factors, accuracy, etc., settings for calculations.

Where

Select Cross section under Calculations in the WS/Cable ribbon.

In the Design window go to Data and select Calculate... in the drop-down menu.

How

The dialogue box Calculations will pop up. This contains a list of all the trenches available in the project.

• Select the trench(es), for which cross-sections and/or quantities are to be calculated.
• Multiple trenches can be selected using the key Shift or Ctrl.
• Mark the check boxes Cross-sections and Quantity to calculate.
• The buttons Settings will be enabled when a trench is selected for calculations.
• Define the settings (Cross-section and Quantity settings) and click the button Build to perform the calculations.

The sub-surface layers and their respective depths for different sections (stretches) along the trench route can be defined using this button. The dialogue box Sub-surface Layers will pop up.

• For further details, refer the topic Sub-Surface Layers.

The basic settings for calculations are to be defined on the dialog box Settings, which will pop up with the button Settings.

• Refer the respective topics (Stations, Terrain Boundaries, Elements, Quantity Boundaries, Bulking Factors, and Accuracy) for further details.
• Bulking factor for calculating volumes can be defined on the tab Bulking Factors. For further details, refer the topic Bulking Factors.
• Bulking factors are used to calculate the in-situ volumes of excavated soils, rock, etc.
• Basically, all volumes are engineered quantities, i.e. prior to application of factors.
• Bulking factors can be defined sectionwise if the bulking factors are not the same all along the length of the trench.
• One can add as many sections as desired along the trench route, which are represented linewise on the tab Bulking Factors of the dialog box Settings.
• If a value is defined as To station in a line, it represents that, the section between the To station value defined and the To station value of preceding line holds the bulking factor details of that line.
• The value To station of the very first line indicate section from chainage 0.0 to the value defined.
• The default To station value is whole section.
• Accuracy can be defined on the tab Accuracy. For further details, refer the topic Accuracy.