Product Features and Benefits

• Introducing our new and user-friendly program interface.
• Utilizing farmiliar menu formats, as seen in Microsoft® Office® products
• Support for all recent versions of Microsoft® Windows®: Windows 11, 10 and 8.1
• Intuitive object-oriented program structure facilitates rapid designer learning curve.
• Works with standard PC-based computers and inkjet printers.
• Numerous automated processes for quick design turnaround times.
• Import or scan drawings onto the drawing surface.
• Create plots by tracing drawing areas -- resize drawing and match drawing scale.
• Generations ahead of ‘flat’ drawing programs or CAD-based add-ons.
• ‘Instant’ reports simplify and accelerate design projects.
• Reports include company information, company logo and client information.
• Interfaces with included industry-standard database for flexible parts management.
• Supports not only heads, but all parts (including labor fees) for a total design solution.
• Unlimited printer and plotter support (Microsoft Windows supported devices). Print-preview support.
• Extensive on-line help system.
• On-line instructional videos.
• Multiple document interface.
• Dockable toolbars.
• Context-sensitive help.
• WYSIWYG (‘What You See is What You Get’) drawing surface.
• Unlimited property size or shape.
• Flexible scaling.
• Ruler bars.
• Cursor coordinates display in status bar.
• Visible or invisible screen grid (for ‘snap-to-grid’ tool).
• Snap-to-Head position tool (snaps to common head positions).
• Intelligent automated head alignment tool.
• Supports all property shapes:
  • Bezier Curve tool for curved areas
  • Elliptical or circular areas
  • Rectangular or square areas
  • Multiple-sided areas
  • Mix lines and curves for irregularly-shaped property areas
• Move support for system objects.
• Automatically differentiates property areas and allows for custom naming:
• Small lawn areas (for finer water coverage and more heads)
• Large Lawn Areas (for less consistent water coverage with fewer heads)
• Shrubs
• Trees
• Gardens
• Buildings
• Driveways
• Walkways
• Static drawing tool for visual accentuation.
• Easily ‘show’ or ‘hide’ objects on the screen or printout:
• Plots (property areas)
• Heads
• System
• Piping
• Head numbers

Water Management Features and Benefits:

• Tracks available water flow and working pressure
• Suggests plot water demand for different area types (lawns, shrubs, trees, and gardens).
• Calculates precipitation rates for watered areas.
• Recommends watering times for areas based upon:
  • Precipitation rates (calculated from head flow and square footage of area).
  • Soil type (sandy loam, silty loam, or clay).
  • Solar exposure (sunny, shady or neutral).
  • Slope (in degrees) of area.
  • Water demand for the area.

Sprinkler Head Configuration – Features and Benefits:

• Automatic Head Layout function fills an area with preferred sprinkler heads (and related parts) with the click of a button.
• Enables selectable area “control borders” for fitting heads precisely along a chosen border (or along all borders in rectangular areas).
• Calculates head position, head spacing, spray radius, spray pattern within the parameters of available pressure and water flow.
• Supports adjustable as well as fixed pattern heads.
• Supports integrated heads as well as separate nozzles and bodies.
• Wind velocity settings adjust head spacing in windy areas.
• Triangular or square head spacing supported.
• Supports all plot area sizes and shapes (including rectangles, curved sides, circles, polygons or any combination of these shapes.)
• Automatically assigns preferred headsite parts (risers, ells, etc) to each headsite.
• Manual Head Layout features a simple, yet detailed process for adding or editing any headsite.
• Selected nozzle displays compatible nozzle bodies for selection and configuration.
• Supports adjustable, circular, square, and rectangular (strip) heads.
• Head graphic on properties screen provides visual aid to head parameter adjustments.
• Adjustable head parameters:
  • Aim (relative to the drawing)
  • Spray radius (or width for square or rectangular heads)
  • Spray pattern (for adjustable angle heads/bodies)
• Calculated hydraulic measurements derived from the above adjustable parameters:
  • Water flow (GPM) from head Required pressure (PSI)
  • Precipitation rate (Inches/hour) of sprayed area

Zone/Manifold Configuration – Features and Benefits:

• Automatic Zone Assignment function creates zones and assigns headsites to them automatically at the click of a button.
• Supports multiple manifolds (for one or more plot areas).
• Selectable linear or clustered head zone alignments.
• Selectable plot area quadrant segmentation to support multiple manifolds.
• Automatically assigns preferred zone parts (electric valves, drain valves, etc) to each zone.
• Balances zone water requirements with available water flow and pressure to ensure proper and planned head operation.
• Simple interface for manually adding or editing zones.
• Select-and-add tool for adding unassigned heads to a zone.
• Summarizes total required flow rate for zone as heads are assigned.
• Displays water flow available and a warning if total flow approaches available flow.

System Pipe Configuration – Features and Benefits:

• Automatic System Pipe Design function creates system pipe segments connecting headsites within a zone and a main line to the parent zone’s manifold.
• Offers these main line orientation options:
  • Point-to-Point: Follows along a line directly connecting the parent manifold and center of zone lateral lines.
  • X-Axis: Follows along the x-axis of the drawing and then along the y-axis to the center of the zone lateral lines.
  • Y-Axis: Follows along the y-axis of the drawing and then along the x-axis to the center of the zone lateral lines.
• Connects the main line to the center of the zone’s lateral lines to ensure equal water pressure to the extreme heads.
• Creates system piping for either a specific zone, an entire manifold, or all zones on all the system’s manifolds.
• Intuitive interface for manual design of system pipe.
• Assign system pipe type to either a specific zone, an entire manifold supplying several zones, or to all manifolds in the project.
• Pipe color matches parent zone colors for easy identification.
• System pipe lengths are summarized in zone and entire project reports.

Parts Management Features and Benefits:

• Project ‘preferences’ for quick and easy parts selection from preferred product series.
• Head locations, zones, manifolds ‘own’ their own parts lists.
• Features a separate location for miscellaneous project parts (tools, accessories, etc)
• Parts ‘cloning’ for fast parts additions to like objects.
• Automatically matches pipe fittings to preferred pipe type.
• Includes all parts categories essential to a total design solution:
  • Sprinkler heads and nozzles
  • Nozzle bodies Pipe (risers, zone piping, manifold piping, entrance piping, etc)
  • Pipe fittings (all) Clocks & Timers Tools (wrenches, pipe cutters, shovels, etc)
  • Valves (manual, automatic, backflow, shutoff, anti-syphon, auto drain, etc)
  • Accessories (teflon tape, pipe clamps, flags, timer wiring, etc)
  • Labor (design fees, trenching fees, installation fees, etc)
  • Add or modify individual parts from within an open project.
  • Add or modify manufacturers or product series from within an open project.
  • Program is immediately updated with all new or modified parts.
  • Intuitive, Windows-based interface to parts database.
  • Individual printouts available for all parts.
• Parts Database:
  • Industry-standard database for future extensibility.
  • Unlimited database size.
  • Unlimited number of product manufacturers.
  • Unlimited number of product lines.
  • Unlimited number of product parts.
  • Client/server support.

Reports:

• Automated reports.
• All reports include:
  • Company information and logo
  • Client information
  • Report title
  • Available water pressure
  • Available water flow File name
  • Date and time of printing
• The ‘Heads by Plot’ Report, listing of heads within a watering area includes:
  • Plot (area) number
  • Plot type
  • Plot location (0,0 point)
  • Plot dimensions Plot area (sq ft)
  • Calculated precipitation rate
  • Soil type Solar exposure
  • Slope angle
  • Crest direction
  • Water demand
  • Recommended watering periods (and number of periods per week)
  • Head number (relative to plot)
  • Head part number
  • Head location (relative to plot)
  • Head description
  • Head height (square or rectangular heads)
  • Head length/radius (all heads)
  • Head pattern angle
  • Head aim (position relative to drawing)
  • Head water flow required
• The ‘Heads by Zone’ report for listing heads assigned to a zone includes:
  • Manifold number
  • Manifold location
  • Zone number
  • Zone required total water flow rate
  • All head parameters as described in ‘Heads by Plot’
• The ‘Parts by Zone’ Report, listing all parts (including heads) in a zone includes:
  • Parts assigned to the Project (miscellaneous parts not included elsewhere)
  • Parts assigned to a manifold (not including zone parts)
  • Parts assigned to a Zone
  • The part’s quantity
  • The part’s part number
  • The part’s description
  • The part’s retail price (optional)
  • The part’s cost price (optional)
• The ‘Parts by Type’ Report, listing all parts sorted by part type includes:
  • ‘Parts by Zone’ information, except broken down into a parts category for easy estimating and parts retrieval.