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Showing pipeline networks
in 3D-view
Version: 1.0
Date: 11.07.2018
1 Introduction
1.1 Lateral sections in WinCan8
1.2 Visualizing lateral sections in WinCan3D
2 Prerequisites
2.1 Hardware
2.2 Software
3 Installation
4 Licenses
4.1 New section as a lateral section
4.2 Existing section as a lateral section
4.3 Manhole structure displayed in 3D
4.4 Pipe inclination displayed in 3D
4.5 Examples
4.5.1 Section with bends
4.5.2 Sections linked together by manholes
5 Items of the WinCan3D window
6 Functions of the 3D toolbar
6.1 Working with building maps
6.2 Moving and rotating pipe systems
6.3 Rotating pipe bends and lateral connections
6.3.1 Undoing transformations
6.4 Pictures and WinCan3D report
6.4.1 Getting pictures
6.4.2 Printing current 3D View
6.4.3 Printing WinCan3D Report
6.5 Exporting 3D data
7 Options in WinCan 3D
7.1 Preferences
7.2 Keyboard shortcuts
Introduction
Welcome to WinCan3D, the additional software module that is drawing a 3D pipeline network visualizing the position of every lateral section (or satellite section) that has been inspected together with the main section in WinCan8. Even the 3D structure of the manholes can be displayed on the same pipeline network if all the required data have been entered in the manhole mask.
The module WinCan3D is automatically installed with the WinCan8Setup.EXE. If licensed it's immediately available after launching the WinCan8 application.
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Click on this button to get the highlighted section 2 displayed in 3D view as a part of a pipeline network. 
WinCan3D is using the data you entered in the corresponding section, inspection and observation fields of WinCan8 (see page 25) before drawing a 3D graph of a pipeline network. The single sections must be linked together logically to the correct main pipe they belong to in reality.
WinCan3D does NOT recognize automatically which sections are linked together at which position. To simplify the manual linkage you may use section names according to a hierarchically pattern. The example below is showing how this could be realized:
2_3: main pipe/main section: (the numbers represent the manholes).
2_3_SAT1:1st level satellite: (1st satellite linked to the main pipe 2_3).
2_3_SAT1_1: 2nd level satellite: (1st satellite linked to SAT1 that itself is linked directly to the main section 2_3).
2_3_SAT1_2:2nd level satellite: (2nd satellite linked to SAT1 that is linked itself directly to the main section 2_3).
2_3_SAT1_3: 2nd level satellite: (3rd satellite linked to SAT1 that is linked itself directly to the main section 2_3).
4_5_SAT3_2: 2nd level satellite: (2nd satellite linked to SAT1 that is linked itself directly to the main section 4_5).
You may use any other hierarchical name pattern that looks more logical for you. Certain standards (e.g. EN-13508) require at least a unique name for each section.
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Forward/Backward
Change to lateral section
All these items can be hidden or unhidden using the context menu:
Keep the mouse wheel pressed to rotate the 3D graph in all directions.
FUNCTIONS OF THE 3D TOOLBAR
This chapter is going to explain you in detail the meaning of the icons in the 3D toolbar and the functions lying behind them:
Working with building maps
Maps can be scanned and saved as files in the JPEG or GIF format. These files can be rescaled at any time in the future. If provided in the DXF format (i.e. as CAD files) such maps/plots won't be able to be rescaled.
WinCan3D is using the industrial standard OpenGL to draw the 3D graph. A smooth real time display of the graph strongly depends upon the graphic board currently used in your PC. The dimension of the map image may influence the performance of the PC too: if necessary the map image imported into WinCan3D will be downsized and thus undergo a certain quality loss.
Add a map and lay it underneath the 3D graph
Remove the map from the WinCan 3D window
Rotate the map clockwise; Control -
: rotate counter clockwise
Adjust the map scale to move the 3D graph and match the positions of the pipe network precisely with the positions indicated on the map.
Either use an existing reference line on the map with a given value or measure directly the REAL distance between 2 points within the building to scale the map.
Confirm with OK and click on the start (1) and on the end point of a known distance within or outside the building (2). Finally set the distance you have measured (3).
Reference line whose distance can hardly be read. So you will have to measure another distance and type the value into the dialogue box shown on the right hand side.213
This symbol is highlighting the point 0/0/0 of the coordinate system and is used as a reference point for modifications of coordinates during a DXF/DWG export.
Moving and rotating pipe systems
WinCan8 doesn't provide any information about the exact position of a section on the map used in the current project. When launching WinCan3D for the first time all sections will therefore be aligned on the X axis per default.
Move a pipe network according to the point 0/0/0. This is especially important when a known reference point from a geographic information system (GIS) doesn't fit to a manhole which is part of the 3D network.
Rotate main sections at their lowest or highest point respectively until they match the reference line/positions on the map.
The following examples are visualizing how this may be done:
Rotation of section 11 at their lowest point in the center of the manhole
The sections 12 and 13 situated upstreams keep their positions per default.
Keeping the Control key pressed during rotation will also rotate all the sections situated upstreams.
Always move to the lowest point of the pipe system to be rotated!
Satellite sections are automatically implied in the rotation.
Rotating pipe bends and lateral connections
The same button allows rotating a pipe at a bend or at a lateral connection. You will have to activate the following 2 columns in the WinCan observation table to show the technical angles:
SO_BendAngleDeg: connection angle / pipe bend
SO_BendClockH: clock position of a lateral connection
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