• AutoCAD Connection
• WATSYS Connection
• SANSYS Connection
• HYDSYS Connection
• Load Configurations
• Inventory Management
• Integrated Spreadsheets
• Import & Export
• Platform
• Size

Connect CivilSystems to AutoCAD with the press of a button. Place or plot property symbols on your own base plan, then connect them to manholes and nodes to simulate service connections. Capture lot or catchment areas. Easily pick, place, locate or edit properties. Water, sewerage, or drainage nodes can also be easily located on the drawing and in WATSYS, SANSYS or HYDSYS.

• AutoCAD R14.01, 2000, 2002, 2004
• customize the toolbar to add properties, edit or view their data, auto-number new properties, or repeat functions
• place or pick properties on drawings to input, edit or view their data
• pick polylines to capture lot areas
• pick a node or manhole and then pick properties to connect them
• locate properties, nodes and manholes on spreadsheets by picking them on a drawing
• draw or erase connection lines between a node or manhole and properties
• draw or erase all properties from a base plan while retaining their data in a property file

Connect properties to WATSYS watermain nodes to simulate service connections.

To predict the effects of development, assign land-use types or zonings along with population densities for residential use or flow characteristics for industrial, commercial or other uses. Assign per capita consumption and pipe leakage rates. Define irrigation rates for planted areas. Choose a scenario and send your property data to WATSYS which will generate accurate demands based on your specifications.

For the most accurate present-use flows, import your water service meter readings and then send them to WATSYS to generate nodal demands. This helps eliminate many modeling uncertainties so that you can confidently calibrate pipe roughness coefficients for hydraulic or water quality analysis.

Many of the above specifications that you define for WATSYS models are similar to those of SANSYS and can be passed between the programs using design criteria files. HYDSYS can also share definitions of unpaved areas for irrigation with WATSYS in this way. This can provide another level of consistency if you are also modeling one of the other systems.

Connect each property to a SANSYS sewerage pipe’s manhole to simulate service connections.

For modeling urban development, assign land-use types or zonings along with population densities for residential use or flow characteristics for industrial, commercial or other uses. Assign per capita consumption and pipe infiltration rates. Choose a scenario and send your property data to SANSYS which will generate accurate flows based on your specifications.

Import water service meter readings and then send them to SANSYS to generate accurate present-use flows. This helps eliminate many modeling uncertainties so that you can confidently calibrate peaking factors and determine infiltration rates during analysis.

Many of the above specifications that you define for SANSYS models are similar to those of WATSYS and can be passed between the programs using design criteria files. This can provide another level of consistency if you are modeling both systems.

Connect each urban property to a HYDSYS drainage pipe’s manhole to simulate service connections. Or connect catchment areas or sub-areas to nodes of drainage courses.

Assign land-use or zoning types to properties defined with percentages of paved and unpaved areas and runoff characteristics for various soil types. Send your property data to HYDSYS which will accumulate areas to complete the zoned-area table for each catchment of a pipe or drainage course. Calculate accurate runoff by applying rainstorms and adjusting these percentages and definitions during calibration.

In urban areas, define properties as city lots with service connections from perimeter drains and direct surface runoff. In rural and undeveloped areas, define properties as sub-catchments with varying soil types and runoff characteristics.

HYDSYS can also share definitions of unpaved areas for irrigation with WATSYS using design criteria files. This can provide another level of consistency if you are modeling both systems.

The land-use, zoning and unit definitions assigned in WATSYS, SANSYS and HYDSYS models link to CivilSystems for data prompts. Define your load configurations to suit, for example:

• WATSYS water supply or SANSYS sewerage models:
  • residential with per capita flows:
    • people per house, apartment, condominium or any other building unit you define
    • people per lot or floor area
  • industrial, commercial and other uses:
    • flow per lot or floor area
    • flow per fixture unit
    • flow per meter reading unit
    • flow per any other unit you define
• WATSYS water supply models:
  • leakage by pipe size
  • irrigation by % unpaved area
• SANSYS sewerage models:
  • infiltration by area and/or pipe size
• HYDSYS drainage models:
  • % paved, supplemental paved areas
  • % grassed areas
  • % undeveloped or rural areas with soil runoff characteristics

You can define a common residential situation by setting the defaults as 70 gallons per person per day, ‘SFam’ as the zoning, ‘house’ as the unit, 2.5 people per house, one house per property, for example. Activate the auto-numbering and repeat switches and then simply point and click to put properties tags on each lot on a drawing to build the property database. Later pick a node or manhole on the drawing and then point and click on each property tag to connect them. It is a very simple and quick process once it is set up the way you want it.

Build a new database quickly by setting default values, then point and click on your AutoCAD drawing to position your properties. Or import from your existing database and then connect properties to each water, sewerage or drainage system.

• adopts your zoning and land-use designations and units and current nodes or manholes from connected WATSYS, SANSYS or HYDSYS models
• currently picked nodes and manholes are adopted by connected WATSYS, SANSYS or HYDSYS
• set default values and auto-number new properties
• define a variety of load-case scenarios, then send loads to each system as required

Quickly access large lists with integrated spreadsheet style data management:

• prompts and context-sensitive help screens as you move from cell to cell
• range, type and error checks as you key in data
• edit, copy, select, change, find and review your data
• find properties, pipes and manholes in a list and locate with AutoCAD or WATSYS, SANSYS or HYDSYS key plans and other facilities

Import or export text (ASCII) files in various formats:

• share data with database, spreadsheet and GIS software
• choose the fields you want to import or export
• import data to match to existing identifiers or add new records

For computer systems most widely used in civil engineering offices:

• Windows
• Optional AutoCAD R14.01, 2000, 2002, 2004
• alphanumeric property identifiers
• any units of measurement

CivilSystems is currently built to handle a medium-sized city of about 100,000 people in each file. Custom-sized software may be provided on request at no extra cost.

• 20,000 properties per file, several files may be used to load each model
• 4 load scenarios per file, scenarios can be exported and stored and then imported for re-use which allows for an unlimited number of load-cases