{"id":611,"date":"2010-08-25T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T07:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/?p=611"},"modified":"2010-08-25T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T07:44:02","slug":"epacad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2010\/08\/25\/epacad\/","title":{"rendered":"EPACAD &#8211; AutoCAD to EPANet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A colleague wanted to convert an <a title=\"EPANET related\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/category\/epanet-related\/\">EPANet<\/a> file to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/tag\/autocad\/\">AutoCAD<\/a> drawing. After having a few issues with the <a title=\"DXF2EPA - AutoCad DXF File Conversion Utility for EPANET\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2005\/06\/03\/dxf2epa-autocad-dxf-file-conversion-utility-for-epanet\/\">DXF2EPA<\/a>utility he found anothe program for this task &#8211; <a title=\"EpaCAD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epacad.com\/caracteristicas-en.php\">EPACAD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">EPACAD, by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ita.upv.es\/quienes_somos\/presentacion-en.php\">ITA<\/a>research\u00a0group\u00a0over at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,\u00a0is a free software which\u00a0can converts an AUTOCAD file into an EPANET one. EPACAD is able to automatically import the main properties of elements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/autocad_epacad-en.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-617 aligncenter\" title=\"autocad_epacad-en\" src=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/autocad_epacad-en.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">EPACAD features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">EPACAD can upload a .dxf exported from AUTOCAD. You will only have to select the layer (or layers) containing the pipes of your hydraulic model to start building your network. As other programs, you needn\u2019t change your AUTOCAD file.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0EPACAD is able to read X, Y coordinates of AUTOCAD files and also elevation of nodes (which are the ones describing your pipeline). So, you will get real lengths of your pipes and a reference of the current location of your items.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">No matter how you draw your pipes in AUTOCAD, EPACAD reads both lines and polylines. Moreover, You can also create two nodes per line (regarding to initial and final node of the pipe) or, considering all the intermediate vertices of the latter in order to edit them later using EPANET.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the most common problems deals with the connection between pipes issues (due to the inaccuracy in the AUTOCAD files). So, we have developed a useful tool that enables you to automatically solve the connectivity between elements, just setting the allowed distance between independent elements.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Before exporting your results to EPANET, you will find a preview of the scenario. There will be some visualization tools to help you to identify small details. This tool will save your time as you can validate your results before final creation of your network.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">EPACAD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epacad.com\/caracteristicas-en.php\">web site<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epacad.com\/descargas-en.php\">user guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague wanted to convert an EPANet file to an AutoCAD drawing. After having a few issues with the DXF2EPAutility he found anothe program for this task &#8211; EPACAD. EPACAD, by the ITAresearch\u00a0group\u00a0over at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,\u00a0is a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2010\/08\/25\/epacad\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPACAD &#8211; AutoCAD to EPANet<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[83,103,104,17,105],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epanet-related","category-free-software","tag-autocad","tag-dxf","tag-dxf2epa","tag-features","tag-ita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}