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Analyzing and inspecting elements of the drainage network

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Analyzing and inspecting elements of the drainage network

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- [Narrator] One of the things to bear in mind when you're doing drainage design based on a road is that if the road changes dramatically, let's say we pull this curb out more, you're going to want to change the drainage. It doesn't update automatically to reflect the new road structure. So in order to get rid of drainage, it's a simple right-click on your selected road, and delete the drainage network. Okay, so let's add our drainage network again. So we're going to add it. Here I'm going to do something slightly different, and I'm going to change the center-line offset to zero, which it is as a default. And notice how the look of the design changes. Quite dramatically, actually. And the reason that I decided I didn't want to use the default in the first place, was because what happens is, it puts a manhole along the center line of the road, by default. And then, it has pipes going from the manhole, to the inlets, which just seems to be quite a waste when it comes to time and…

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