About the Cover And Slope Pipe Rule

This rule ensures that a pipe slopes appropriately and warns when a pipe is placed too close to a ground surface.

For gravity-based systems, this is perhaps the most useful rule. It ensures that a pipe slopes in the desired direction under various conditions, while ensuring that minimum cover is not exceeded. In addition, it manages conditions when a pipe drop across structure rule conflicts with the pipe’s slope and cover rules.

When drawing a pipe, the pipe attempts to stay within minimum and maximum cover values, unless the minimum or maximum slope is reached. At that point, maximum cover distance is exceeded to satisfy the minimum slope requirement, if it is violated.

This rule ensures the following:

Parameters

The following parameters govern the behavior of the pipe Cover And Slope rule.