Quick Start Lessons

The purpose of this chapter is to provide step-by-step lessons to get you familiar with some of the
features and capabilities of SewerCAD V8i. The lessons serve as a means to get you started
exploring and using the software. We have included sample files located in your Samples directory
(under the main product directory) for you to explore and experiment with. If you need help, press
F1 (or right click) to access the context sensitive on-line help.
In order to follow these tutorials, you can either do them in sequence, since each tutorial uses the
results of the previous ones, or start lesson 2, 3, 4, and 5 with the files located in the Lessons
directory.

Lesson 1 - Creating a Schematic Network

SewerCAD V8i is an extremely efficient tool for laying out a sanitary sewer
model. It is easy to prepare a schematic model and let SewerCAD V8i take care of the link-node
connectivity.
You do not need to be concerned with assigning labels to pipes and nodes, because SewerCAD V8i
will handle this internally. When creating a scaled drawing, pipe lengths are automatically
calculated from the position of the pipes' start and stop nodes on the drawing pane. Since this
example is a schematic (not scaled) layout, you will need to enter the pipe lengths.
In this lesson we will layout and analyze the following schematic network.

Part 1 - Creating a New Schematic Project File

1. Start SewerCAD V8i Stand-Alone. If the Welcome to SewerCAD V8i dialog
appears, click the Create New Project button. If it does not appear, choose New
from the File pull-down menu. Enter a file name such as 'Lesson.swc' for your
project and click Save.
2. Enter information about the project in the project propeties dialog (optional). To
access Project Properties click the File menu and select Project
properties. In this dialog you can enter a Title, Filename,
Engineer's name, Company name, date, and descriptive notes.
When you are finished click OK

3. Choose your desired project options. To access project Options click the Tools
menu and select Options.

4. Click the Drawing tab in the Options dialog. The Drawing Mode should be set to
Schematic.

5. For this project we will use metric units. Click the Units tab. Change the Default
Unit System for New project value to SI. Click the OK button to accept the rest of
the default project options.
6. To draw the skeletonized sewer network shown previously, click the Layout tool
in the Layout toolbar and select Conduit from the submenu that appears.

7. Move the cursor onto the drawing space and click once to place a manhole to
represent the manhole labeled MH-1.
8. Right-click and select Wet Well from the context menu. Move the cursor to the
approximate location of the wet well, W-1, and click once to place it. We will
change the default labels later so that your drawing reflects the one shown at
the beginning of this lesson.

Wet wells represent the transition point between the gravity system and the pressure system.
Similarly, manholes and transitions can represent the transition from a pressure system to the
gravity system. Conduits are used to connect gravity elements, while Pressure Pipes are used
to connect pressure elements. W-1 marks the transition between the gravity and pressure
systems; the rest of the elements in the network will be connected using Pressure Pipes.
9. Right-click and select Pressure pipe. Right-click again and select Pump. Place
PMP-1.
10.Place the pressure junction and the outfall by right clicking, selecting the
appropriate element from the context menu, and then clicking once to place
each element.
11.Place manhole MH-2. Right-click and select Transition from the context menu.
SewerCAD V8i allows you to split any pipe in two. To insert the Transition, click
the middle of pipe P-1. A dialog will pop up asking whether you wish to split the
pipe. Click Yes.
12.Right-click and select Done from the pop-up menu to terminate the pipe layout
command. Click JC-1 and drag it into position so your network matches the
layout shown below.

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