It’s a new month! 2011 is turning out to be a good one. Today we would like to show the Irrigation Designer how to obtain the heights of nodes from the underlying DTM . In Irrimaker the irrigation node interpolates its elevation when initially placed on a DTM model. If the model is not available, [...]

Welcome to Irrimaker Irrigation Software’s quick tip #7. Today we would like to show the Irrigation Designer especially a way to visually and numerically present the sprinkler pressures of a design as the heights of DTM points. Once you have an already designed Irrigation block you can proceed.   Find your way to the Irrigation [...]

In today’s time Irrigation Software can easily be used along with Open Source Applications. As a result we are excited about today’s tip. In recent updates Irrimaker’s ability to work along with Google Earth has improved tremendously. Now the Irrigation Designer can easily make use of the survey data provided by google earth to create [...]

Welcome to part two of  “The Speed Toggle Menu” quick tip. 9. Toggle Paper Windows   10. Toggle Cad Elements   11. Toggle Only Identified Cad Elements This requires two steps. First you would identify some Cad elements. Then you can easily show only those elements with the toggle button. 12. Toggle Cad Line Endpoints [...]

Happy Monday to everyone! This is quite a long post and will be divided into two parts. We are confident though, that these tips will really assist in speeding up your work flow. It is clear that visualization is very important when it comes to working with data. As a result Irrimaker has numerous toggle [...]

Staying on the topic of speeding up the irrigation designers work, we will focus on Speed Menus this week.

Lets look at displaying the Grid in different ways.

1. Access the Plot Parameters Menu quickly through the Plot Parameter speed button.

  Since time is valuable to the irrigation designer, here is a tip on speeding up the process of opening files in Irrimaker. On the Open Dialog Box you will find a dropdown option that keeps a history of the files you have opened previously. This way you can quickly get to that file you [...]

While working in the CAD, there are always times when one would like “id” some elements quickly. To turn on “Id on the fly” Go to CAD Select Id Select do_id Check the Enable ID on the fly checkbox   Once “Id on the fly” has been enabled, it becomes very easy to quickly identify [...]

At times you might need to obtain the Diameter, Flow or Velocity in a given situation.

In Irrimaker you can easily get those values by utilizing the Hydro Calculator.

From the Irrigation window, select Def&Chk from the top menu.

Select the Calculator.