Graphical symbols are used to represent network elements, such as manholes, pipes, pumps, weirs, ditches, channels, and detention ponds. For example, selecting and moving a manhole automatically moves all connected pipes, ditches, channels, and pumps. The graphical representation of the model can be output at any drawing scale.
Pipes can be curvilinear and lengths automatically computed.
Scanned TIFF or BMP aerial images or maps, or DXF maps of streets, parcels, and buildings can be displayed as a background image, allowing the user to quickly digitize a network model, confirm the network layout, or simply enhance the outputted modeling results. And, the Network Element Inspector allows the user to point and click on any network manhole, pipe, pump, weir, ditch, channel, or detention pond from the horizontal plan view to quickly determine the defined input data and output modeling results. Established in 1964 and affiliated with the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, DHI offers a broad spectrum of services, software tools, and model test facilities related to offshore, coastal, port, river, water resources, urban hydraulics, and environmental engineering. A node can represent the junction of two or more links, the location of a flow or pollutant input into the system, or as storage element, such as a detention pond, stilling basin, or lake. The program can be applied to any type of pipe network system with alternating free surface and pressurized flows.