This section describes best practices when planning to import or export Storm Sewers data.
- Select the Autodesk Civil 3D NCS template (or custom template).
- Navigate to the Settings Toolspace tab, right-click Pipe Network, and then select Edit Feature Settings. You should review the Storm Sewer Migration Defaults and confirm the default selections.
- If you do not use the template listed above, you can create a full parts list by using the Create Full Parts List command and ensuring that the "Full Catalog" parts list is being used under the Storm Sewer Migration Defaults setting (noted previously).
- If you want to create a part in Autodesk Civil 3D that has the same naming convention as the Storm Sewers parts (for example, Drop Grate or Grate Inlet), you use Part Builder to create a part.
- If you work with a large number of pipe networks in Autodesk Civil 3D and plan to export more than 250 pipes (or a combination of pipes and structures), you should create more than one network. Each network can then go into a separate .stm file. Storm Sewers prevent you from importing files with more than 250 pipes and structures.
- If you want to export a pipe network or multiple networks from
Autodesk Civil 3D and intend to work with the pipe networks in Storm Sewers immediately after export, you should use the Edit In Storm Sewers command.
To access this command, select a pipe network. Then click Pipe Networks tab
Analyze panel Storm Sewers Edit in Storm Sewers. This exports the networks to a file and also launches the Storm Sewers extension at the same time.