HydrauliCAD's Innovative Scenario Engine

Our Powerful Scenario Engine encourages the User to "Play What If" and take hydraulic efficiency as far as his imagination wishes to take it. 

Our Scenario Engine, AKA Hal, was created to perform virtually any Scenario the operator wishes to create, its potential limited only by need and the imagination.

It is extremely straightforward to use, once the basic premises become familiar to you.

This step by step scenario construction introduces the techniques needed for most scenarios, and will make you familiar with all the tools you will need to turn your own ingenuity loose, create your own stock scenarios, then Play "What If" to your heart's content.

The possibilities are virtually unlimited. Most of the scenario possible items are operational, some likely never used items are not activated. If you see any not yet thought of items that you would like created for your uses, please let us know as we wish to expand it relative to need.

  

A scenario can also be used to
 
· Examine if a certain property of one or several objects is changed, how it can impact the network. For example if the pipe size of some pipes is changed, without actually replacing the new pipe size in the drawing.

· Examine the impacts of different loading conditions.

· Search for optimal parameter estimates.

· And evaluate changes in operating policies.

· Play "What IF!"

Example of a Complex scenario with "Varying Demands.
(Tank Level controls Pump & Valve On & Off" running in 2 separate scenarios within it.
(with a "What IF" Pipe Size + Specification change thrown in for the last Time Step)

Some use term "alternatives" but HydrauliCAD's' Scenario engine structure is far more flexible & encompassing than
the more limited "alternative" structure, allowing the modeler to "Play What IF" with the EPANET math engine
to degrees not possible with any other software that we have examined to date

 

TOP 1/2 Viewable Area
of the Scenario Palette
(view shows lines 1 - 12, of 21)

(line 1) - This Scenario also is running an independent Scenario to Close a valve based on Tank Level

+ (line 2) - it is also running an independent Scenario to Turn a Pump On or Off based based on Tank Level

+ (lines 3&4) - At start of Time Step 3, it sets Demands for selected Outlet Node(s) to an Absolute value of 250 gpm

+ (lines 5&6) - At start of Time Step 5, it resets the Outlet Node Demand(s) to it's original value

+ (lines 7&8) - At start of Time Step 10, it multiplies the current values of the selected Outlet Nodes X 1.55

+ (lines 9&10) - Reset those values back to their original settings.

  

BOTTOM 1/2 Viewable Area
of the Scenario Palette (view shows lines 11 - 21)

+ (lines 11&12) - At start of Time Step 12, it multiplies Demands for selected Outlet Node(s) X 1.1

+ (lines 13&14) - At start of Time Step 15, it sets the selected Outlet Node Demand(s) to the absolute value of 215 gpm

Similar for (lines 15-18), Then,

+ (lines 19-21) - At start of Time Step 20, it performs 2 independent operations a & b:
a - (line 20) - Resets Demand Value for the selected Outlet(s) to the Original Value X 1.3

b - (line 21) - Sets, for selected pipes, Specification to "PVC" ASTM-2241 SDR42 and Size to 10"

  

HydrauliCAD™ Mission Statement:

It is our intention to break from industry traditions, and create a true AutoCAD Hydraulic Design / Analysis Program that is Fast to Learn and Easy to Use.

Please Note: It is our intention to earn ALL of our revenue from the program itself, and NOT from creating or allowing the unnecessary need for costly training classes and support sessions.

Thus, HydrauliCAD was designed and programmed to be extremely Intuitive, Fast to Learn & Easy to Use for modelers, and for those somewhat fluent with AutoCAD but not specializing in modeling per se. 

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For Professional Hydraulic Modelers:
it is FAST, EFFICIENT and ROBUST for the Professional Modeler's highly technical needs to create the model, manage data and set up hydraulic scenarios.
 

For Project Administrators (bosses):
it is INTUITIVE & EASY for the Design Administrator's and Municipal System Manager's more "occasional" needs to review the Pro's Scenarios or to Just Jump in & Explore their own ideas & "What If" hydraulic possibilities.
 

Put HydrauliCAD to Work - Right Out of the Box
HydrauliCAD™ is Designed to be Powerful and Fast, and So Intuitive that Task & Tool Methods are "Obvious" and the Program is almost IMMEDIATELY USABLE for ALL Users and all Disciplines.

 

As an Authorized AutoCAD Developer, we decided to follow the very highest of several optional programming levels suggested by AutoCAD.
HydrauliCAD utilizes the power & solidity of AutoCAD's ARX & C++.Net programming to construct the most reliable & flexible program possible.

Seamlessly Integrated with AutoCAD:
From a CAD perspective, user can manipulate the hydraulic elements exactly the same as any other drawing entity. All hydraulic data remains only within the drawing. With no need for external data files or libraries, any data can be exchanged directly between models via the AutoCAD DesignCenter.

  

ALL Hydraulic Data is Stored Within the Single AutoCAD Drawing File:
No external hydraulic files are created, or needed to run the models. All HydrauliCAD data is retained within the AutoCAD drawing itself.

Tasks & Tools:
As a result of this level of program structure, AutoCAD Commands are accessed & utilized to perform tasks at the root AutoCAD level.
HydrauliCAD utilizes the basic AutoCAD tools to operate it's Tools & Tasks, giving the program a stability, reliability and user-familiarity not achieved by any other methods.

 

Selection Sets can be Saved:
All Selection Sets, no matter how they are collected, can be saved in the Selection Set Form, recalled later, then Edited, Appended to, or Selected from, using any of the above methods.

"Cycle Through Sets" Tool:
NOTE: You can also Cycle through the result or any Selection Set, a Saved Set or not, by Individual Object.

The HydrauliCAD Quick Select tool:
allows complex and sequential Add and / or Exclude Queries dealing with all Hydraulic Properties of the Hydraulic Objects.
This tool works together with our Save Selection Sets Tool to SAVE Sets and later recall these Saved Sets to use and / or alter (append to or exclude from) further.

  

Transfer User Settings into New Drawings:
Designers work hard to create Display Settings, Pipe Specifications (along with their Class, Nominal and Actual Sizes), Patterns, Groups, Zones etc.

With HydrauliCAD / AutoCAD Design Center, specialty User Settings are available to other drawings. Now, they do not need to be recreated.



Mix & Match Units to suit your needs. display the drawing in any Units you wish, irrespective of the units drawing was created with

Draw / Design in US Units, and Quickly display drawings in SI / Metric Units.