GEOCOMP SYSTEMS
TERRAMODEL
IRRIGATION
BAY DESIGN
User’s Guide
&
Reference Manual
Geocomp Systems Pty Ltd
2-6 Albert St
Blackburn
Vic 3123
Australia
www.geocomp.com.au
©2001 Geocomp Systems (11/03/04)
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By the use of Terramodel software and the options specifically written for the bay / field
designs the user can input, process, design and draft field bays all within the one software
package.
Other Terramodel options allow for the design of channels and drains (by the method of
template fitting or by the SIDESLOPE.tml) and the complete drafting of all final drawings.
There is no need for any third party drafting package to finish the drawings. Drawings in
most instances are dynamic in that if the design is altered the resulting drawings are
updated at the same time.
To use the Irrigation Bay Design options in Terramodel you need to have a working
knowledge of the powerful capabilities of the Terramodel software. Without an
understanding of the survey editing, design editing and drafting capabilities of Terramodel
the design of irrigation bays is difficult.
Once the software has been set up as described below, the first step is to import or
manually enter any existing surface survey information into Terramodel.
All existing surface DTM points and breaklines must be on one layer. IR_BGRID.TML and
IR_BENT.TML are useful options for manually entering existing surface data. Once the
data has been entered, check the existing surface by contouring (DTM…Generate
Contours…). In most cases existing data would be collected and imported from survey
instruments or GPS.
Secondly, you can create a separate layer (typically called GRID) to set the location of the
cut/fill, existing and finished surface labelling text on the final drawings. Note that these
points do not need to be on any regular grid. The designer can randomly or specifically
locate them. Alternatively you can use the surveyed existing surface to determine the
location of this labelling.
Next define the outlines of the fields or bays. The easiest way to do this is to firstly define
a unique layer for each bay eg BAY1, BAY2 etc. Create each bay as a single closed pline
on this unique layer. The bay can have as many straight sides as you want, and can have
common edges along the same lines as other bays. Each bay will have a single main
slope, cross slope and design height at a defined location. Note that the IR_BAY tml
automatically converts all the bay plines to sets for design and modelling purposes.
IR_BAY.TML is then used to set the design elevations and slopes or allow the software to
determine (by least squares plane of best fit) the optimum heights and slopes for each bay
to minimise the earthworks and determine the volumes and stripping areas. Once
designed the bay can be labelled with cut/fill, existing and design surface levels. Callout
text can be used to show the attributes of each bay. A table showing the properties and
volumes of each bay can be generated. A text report can also be made.
The 3D view and quick profile options are also very useful for getting a feel for the design
in relation to the existing surface.
The method used to determining the plane of best fit is to generate a ‘virtual’ temporary
grid of points over the bay at a predefined grid interval (the smaller the grid interval the
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more accurate is the plane of best fit). These points are given the height difference
between the existing and design. The plane of best fit is computed from these differences.
Once the bay is designed, cut/fill volumes (considering compaction factors) are determined
by comparing the bay DTM to the original surface DTM. The grid interval for determining
the plane of best fit has no effect on the determination of the volumes.
Terramodel dynaview objects control the format and content of the final drawings
generated and placed in the sheet view.
By the use of the text callouts a box containing the design parameters can be generated
with a leader line pointing to each bay.
In addition to the design of bays, storages channels and drains can be designed and
drafted. Volumes of earthworks and water storages can be computed.
Standard structures such as culverts and headwalls used for the overall farm plan can be
drafted in their own views using their own scale and included (DynaViewed) in the final
drawings.
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SOFTWARE SETUP...
Before entering any data, setup the Irrigation Bay Design options in Terramodel as follows:
The options for Irrigation Design have been included in a Toolbox that should be used for
the design process. The name of the workspace file that contains the toolbox and buttons
is IR_BAY.WS. This toolbox places the options in a logical order.
IR_PROT.PRO
Please refer to the Terramodel User’s Guide Chapter 3 for prototype files.
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SAMPLE FORMS
Introduction This option sets up the ‘Project Variables’ that are related to the
name of the project. These values are used in the bay reports
and can be used in the drawing title blocks. See the Help for the
PRJINFO option for further details.
Introduction This is a form to record settings and optimise the design for
each bay.
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These include:
Max Slope: The direction of the water runoff and its slope.
Nett: The result of (CUT – FILL x Cut/Fill Ratio + Added Vol).
Introduction Use this if you want to get t 3D model of all of the Bays into the
one layer. Because most bays are ‘edge matched’ then they
need to be separated to all for correct dtm formation. This
option separates the bays by the nominated value.
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Part of an example of final design showing labelling, results table and callout text.