NOTE: I now write InRoads Training Material as a Bentley employee: My books are no longer available.

Storm&Sanitary

Storm&Sanitary is an outstanding, robust and easy-to-use program that can create an integrated, accessible, profoundly modifiable, and hydrologically and hydraulically intelligent model in no more time than it takes to draw dumb graphics. S&S provides modification tools which blow CADD-only packages out of the water.  Whether you want to increase your drafting productivity or completely automate your hydraulic workflow S&S is a time-saver.

There are six levels to the Mastery of Storm&Sanitary:

1. pushing the buttons, fast
2. pushing the buttons, correctly (and being able to provide verification)
3. understanding, hydraulically, the "modeling options" in S&S, and their design impacts
4. setting up the support files (IDF tables, etc.) so that S&S works according to your standards
5. understanding the details of the hydraulic methodology (to verify numbers)
6. understanding where S&S methodology or workflow deviates from your methodology or workflow and what to do about it

Our "Mastering Storm&Sanitary" Manual addresses levels 1-3 thoroughly, and provides information on how to understand level 4-6.  

In our "Mastering Storm&Sanitary" Training we addresses levels 4 -6 more thoroughly and we can address any of your questions in great detail.

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"Mastering Storm&Sanitary" Training

Hydraulic Jumps in Productivity! Civil XLr8 provides a 2 or 3-Day Storm&Sanitary Class, taught from our own "Mastering Storm&Sanitary" Training Manual.   

Here's what to Expect from Civil XLr8 "Mastering Storm&Sanitary" Training:

  Drafters:

• Learn to Lay Out a Drainage and/or Sanitary Network that looks good graphically (fast!)
• Learn to Lay Out a Network where the Physical Characteristics are correct (fast!)
• Learn Lay Out Techniques that minimize rework/editing (Good QA/QC).
• Learn Feedback Techniques for content verification (QC: Annotation, Reports, Queries)
• Learn Individual and "Massive" Editing Techniques (which blow CAD-only out of the water!)

Designers:

• Learn All of the above, plus
• Learn how to get Drainage and Sanitary flow into the networks.
• Learn how S&S Implements Modified Rational, SCS, and Sanitary Peaking methodologies.

Planners

• Learn All of the above, plus
• Learn how to get Rough Order of Magnitude Quantities REALLY Quickly.

Hydraulic Engineers in Charge:

• Learn All of the Above, plus
• The Hydraulic Details of how S&S produces its numbers including inlet capture, HGL, minor losses, pumps, etc.  We'll go as deep as you want.
• How S&S may deviate from your current practices and standards.
• How to manage these differences most productively.
• (If you are going to be signing and sealing S&S output, this class is a great investment.

This is the best S&S class, from the best Manual, on the market.

Pre-requisites: competency in MicroStation or AutoCAD (r14 and up).

"Mastering Storm&Sanitary" - the Manual

New for Version v8.9:  Caltrans English Structures and data set up for Style Lock.

Note: InRoads v8.9 runs on MicroStation v8 2004, MicroStation XM and AutoCAD.

Jeff's experience in drainage design and writing major hydraulic training manuals (since 1995, InSewer Unix) shows in this extremely easy-to-follow and informative 260 page Training Manual.  The focus is productivity and quality control.

"Mastering Storm&Sanitary" is broken down in the following manner:

•             Structure Modeling ("Drafting Workflow")

•             Hydraulic Modeling

•             Advanced Topics and Tools

This manual presents “structure layout” first.  Drafters and “non-drafting” Engineers will learn how to lay out, manipulate, and provide QC functions on the Structural model of the network(s).  Storm&Sanitary’s ease of use makes repeated reference to this manual for this workflow unlikely.

Hydraulic Modeling is a far more complex issue, which will require frequent reference to this manual.  Rather than intersperse hydraulic information throughout the document, it is concentrated in the second part of this manual.  By that time drafters and designer will be very familiar with S&S's "structure modeling" and will be able to focus on the details of the hydraulics.

The remainder of the Manual documents advanced or miscellaneous S&S Topics and Tools.

Combined with a robust dataset, this is the best S&S reference on the market.

Click on the links below to see sample chapters for the Storm Workflow, MicroStation version of the Civil XLr8 Storm&Sanitary Training Manual.

(The following is from earlier versions of Mastering Storm&Sanitary).

Table of Contents

Chapter 3: Laying Out Structures

Chapter 12: Hydraulic Design and Analysis

For additional information, email info@civilxlr8.com

For a very brief introduction to Storm&Sanitary, click Introducing SnS.

Chapter 2 of Mastering Storm&Sanitary is around 40 pages getting familiar with the "InRoads" part of Storm&Sanitary.  "Exploring InRoads" is a comprehensive introduction to InRoads, focusing on good technique, debugging skills and good InRoads management.

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