Pattern Drain Design

This design tool allows for simple design of many parallel drains at once.   The pattern drain window allows you to select specific drains to delete. The ' Delete ' and ' Clear All ' buttons allow you to either delete selected drains or all pattern drains. ' Drain length ' can either be set here or by moving the red circle on the design map. ' Drain Heading ' is the direction that the drains run (represented as degrees). ‘ Padlock ’ button changes the behavior of the copied drains in relation to the original. locked - This locks ‘Drain Heading’ to ‘Offset Direction’ so if either are adjusted the other will change to match. Unlocked - ‘Drain Heading’ and ‘Offset Direction’ can be set independently of each other. ' Offset Direction ' sets the direction in which copy drains will be created from the original. ' Drain Count ' is the number of drain copies you want to add (not including the original drain). ' Drain Offset (Parallel) ' is the distance between each line of the copies. (if the padlock is unlocked this will not show in the example until it is manually updated.) ‘ Drain Offset (Origin) ’ is the set distance between the origin point of each copy. Press ' Apply ' (shown as the pattern drain icon) after parameters are entered. Once you are happy with the drain paths use the ‘ Drain Design ’ function to design the profile and cross section of the drains.