Edit Walls

To use the Wall Editor (and to get the most out of its functionality), ensure you have satisfied the following:

• You must be editing (we recommend editing within a session or version).

• You must have launched the Underground Diagram Facility Manager on an underground structure, as the toolset resides in that dialog.

• The structure you are viewing must have a floor and walls. See Create Floor and Walls.

  • The floor and walls must be convex polygons, in other words, polygons with straight edges who sides point “outwards” and not “inwards.” If you use the Create Floor and Walls tool, this is already the case and you are good to go. But, if you are sketching your floor and walls, ensure they are convex polygons.

    

    TIP: Although Wall Editor does not support the above arrangements, Conduit Manager and Underground Facility Manager support irregular floors and walls. Instead of using Wall Editor, use the Edit Duct Bank tool to move ducts.

  • The floor cannot have redundant (stacked) vertices. This is uncommon.

To get started, click Edit Walls once to highlight it. Then, click the “Show or edit the walls of the facility” tool.

The Wall Editor opens. By default, it focuses on the northern-most wall.

The Wall Editor pane is a moveable, dockable, and stackable pane, so take a moment to position it as you prefer.

Your structure likely has numerous walls. Use the top of Wall Editor to choose the desired wall. As seen in the animated demonstration:

• The chosen wall displays as if you were standing in the structure and looking at the wall. This is different than the butterfly diagram, which is “flattening” the structure in order to view all walls at the same time.

• By default, Wall Editor keeps north pointing “up.” However, you can check the Rotate box, which rotates the image so the selected wall appears on top.

Click the animated demonstration to open it full-size in a separate browser tab.

You can edit the duct attributes within the Wall Editor pane.

To edit duct attributes within Wall Editor, follow these steps:

1. In the Wall Editor pane, click the duct once to highlight it.

2. Under Attributes, change the desired attributes. Notice if you are changing the size (or another attribute that is associated with symbology), the changes are reflected in real time in Wall Editor.

3. Click Save. Notice the changes are now reflected on the butterfly diagram.

   TIP: You can use Undo and Redo while working within Wall Editor.

   In this animated demonstration, the user changes the size of duct #7 (on the eastern wall) from 4” to 10”. Click the animation to open it full-size in a separate browser tab.

   

4. Conduit connects two underground structures. So, if a duct bank diagram already exists on the “other side” the conduit, visit the adjacent facility to verify the duct changes. In the example above, the user would visit the adjacent facility to verify the new 10” duct displays correctly on the adjacent structure’s diagram.

You can move the ducts within the Wall Editor pane.

Animated Demonstration

Click the animated demonstration to open it full-size in a separate browser tab. Step-by-step instructions are below the animated demonstration.

Steps

To move ducts within Wall Editor, follow these steps:

1. Decide if you want a snappable grid to assist your duct placement. If yes, follow these substeps:

   1. Click the Enable Snap to Grid button.

   2. Click Configure Grid.

   3. In the Configure Grid panel, type the number of rows and columns, or type the Grid Size to determine the number of rows and columns.

      TIP: These two options are always equivalents values. For example, if your wall is 6 feet wide and you choose to display 6 rows and 6 columns, the Grid Size values automatically calculate to be 12 inches (6 feet / 6 = 12 inches per row/column). Similarly, if you choose a Grid Size of 4 inches, then the number of rows and columns would automatically calculate to be 18 (6 feet / 4 inches = 18).

   4. For Snap Ducts To, decide if ducts should snap to the Grid Intersections or the Center of Cells.

   5. Use the slide bar to increase or decrease the Line Weight (also known as the thickness) of the grid.

   6. Click Apply.

      

      IMPORTANT:

      • If your GIS administrator has configured the attribute fields WallGridOrigin and WallGridCellSize in your Wall feature class, when you click Apply, these grid changes are saved with the wall. In other words, if you exit and return to the wall, the grid dimensions persist. This also allows you to have different dimensions for different walls. See the Configuration Guide topic Assign Model Names and Autoupdaters.

      • If they do persist, you should know that changing the grid is considered an edit. Thus, these edits are included in your Undo/Redo “stack.” This means clicking Undo/Redo includes the changes you’ve made to the grid dimensions.

2. In the Wall Editor pane, click the duct once to highlight it.

3. Move your mouse slightly until it changes into the move cursor.

4. Once you see the move cursor, click and hold, then drag the duct into your desired position. Notice how the duct snaps to the grid or cell center, depending on your settings.

   IMPORTANT:

   • The ducts change color indicating whether they have been moved and whether they have snapped to the grid.

     	Single yellow line - The duct was moved, but it was not snapped to the grid.
     	Double yellow line - The duct was moved, and it was snapped to the grid.

   • The duct bank size and shape automatically adjusts to accommodate your duct placements.

   • You cannot overlap ducts. If you do, the application moves the errant duct back to its original position.

   • If you have existing Duct Connections, they do not automatically move with the ducts. Edit the duct connectors to reflect the new duct positions.

5. Repeat with other ducts, if necessary.

6. At the bottom of the Wall Editor pane, click Save.

7. Notice the ducts change position both within the Wall Editor pane and on the butterfly diagram.

   TIP: Undo and Redo are available to you while working within the Wall Editor.

Good to Know

If you have existing Cross Section Annotation, it also updates to reflect the changes you make within Wall Editor.

If the wall does not have a duct bank and ducts, you can create them directly within Wall Editor. After you create them, you can associate them to a conduit.

Animated Demonstration

Click the animated demonstration to open it full-size in a separate browser tab. Step-by-step instructions are below the animated demonstration.

Steps

The steps below assume there is a conduit snapped to the structure that does not have a duct configuration.

To create a duct bank and ducts within Wall Editor, follow these steps:

1. Click the Enable Snap to Grid button.

   TIP: This step is optional. You can create the duct bank and ducts without the grid. However, since the duct bank has dimensions, it is handy to see the grid as you are placing the duct bank.

2. If necessary, click Configure Grid to set the grid parameters.

3. Right-click on the wall and choose, “Add Duct Bank.”

   IMPORTANT: Where you right-click becomes the center of the duct bank (in the following image, a red dot has been added to show the center; this is just for explanation purposes, and no red dot appears in the dialog). Ensure you are leaving yourself enough room on the wall to accommodate the duct bank size.

   

4. Under Create Duct Bank, type the dimensions for the duct bank itself. Further, choose how many ducts and in what arrangement they should follow. Finally, choose the duct size.

   

5. Click Create. Notice the duct bank appears within Wall Editor, and it also appears on the butterfly diagram.

   TIP:

   • Undo and Redo are available to you while working within the Wall Editor.

   • If you do not leave yourself enough space around the duct bank (in other words, you right-clicked too close to the edge of the wall), the bank is not created and you receive an error, “The edge of this duct bank does not fit on the wall.” In this case, it’s best to click OK to close the error message and try again. As stated in Step 3, where you right-click becomes the center of the duct bank, so ensure where you right-click has enough surrounding room for the bank.

   • Ducts cannot overlap (duct banks can overlap, but not the ducts). So, if your new ducts overlap existing ducts, you are unable to save. Click Cancel and try again.

     

6. Click Save. Now that you have the duct bank placed, you can associate it to the conduit.

   IMPORTANT: You can’t associate the conduit unless the duct bank has been saved.

7. Right-click the new duct bank and choose, “Associate to Conduit.”

8. Under Associate Duct Bank to Conduit, click which conduit should accept the duct bank arrangement. Notice the conduit highlights to confirm your selection.

9. Click Associate.

You can add ducts to existing duct banks. This is helpful with non-standard duct arrangements, or where ducts were added at a later installation date than the original duct bank.

To add a duct, follow these steps:

1. As stated above, ensure you already have a duct bank, and ensure that the duct bank is already associated to a conduit.

2. Click the Enable Snap to Grid button.

   TIP: This step is optional. You can create the ducts without the grid. However, it is handy to see the grid as you are placing the ducts to ensure there is room and a clean presentation.

3. If necessary, click Configure Grid to set the grid parameters.

4. Within the duct bank, right-click and choose Add Duct. Try to right-click close to where you want the duct. You have an opportunity to move it later, but it is easier if it starts relatively close to its final position.

   

5. Under Create Duct, populate the attributes for the new duct, then click Create.

6. Notice the duct appears. It is not yet saved, in case you need to move it.

   

7. If necessary, move the duct into the proper position.

8. When satisfied, click Save.

9. Notice the new duct appears on both the Wall Editor and on the butterfly diagram.

   

Context

In some situations, a single duct (or a small number of ducts) bypasses the vault or other structure. Conductors or cables are still in the duct, but that particular duct cannot be accessed in the vault because it bypasses it. For example, in the follow image, Duct #3 bypasses Vault V22W (the line is drawn to represent the situation, but in the application, you do not sketch individual duct lines).

Because Duct #3 cannot be accessed in this vault, you want to mark it as a bypass duct.

Steps

To manage a bypass duct, follow these steps:

1. In the Wall Editor, right-click the duct and choose, “Highlight.” Notice the duct flashes on the butterfly diagram. While this step is optional, it is a good idea to verify on the diagram you have chosen the correct duct.

   

2. In the Wall Editor, right-click the duct and choose, “Bypass This Facility.”

   

3. Notice a Bypass Duct Selection dialog appears.

4. The Bypass Duct Selection dialog displays all available ducts, organized by conduit.

5. Locate the duct on the “other side” of the diagram.

6. Right-click it, then choose Highlight. Again, this is optional, but it is a good idea to visually confirm you have located the correct duct.

   

7. Click OK to close the Bypass Duct Selection dialog.

8. Back in Wall Editor, click Save.

9. After it saves, notice the duct no longer appears in the Wall Editor.

   

10. Further, click the Bypass tab and notice the duct is now listed as bypassing this structure.

    

11. Finally, if the conduit has Cross Section Annotation, it also reflects the new bypass duct.

    

Good to Know

The Bypass tab allows you to edit or remove a bypass duct

Right-click the duct to either edit it, remove it, or highlight it.