Reports, plotting and export

Reports panel

Tabs: zone summary, pipes, emitters, mainline and duties (with the devices), bill of materials, water requirements, hydraulic grade line (chart of the selected pipe, lateral or valve, with the allowable pressure band), messages, profile (terrain along a path, with pipe and grade line), flushing, water hammer, agronomy (ETc, readily available water, interval, depths, hours per event), schedule (controller calendar per system flow), pivots and pivot spans, electrical (station, route and wire length, station and common wire, valves open together and solenoid voltage of every valve; stations used, common length and peak current of every controller), quote, trenches (volumes and the construction schedule), materials by sector, comments, revisions, alternatives, crop requirement (with the licensing category), pivot package (nozzle chart and timer), arm, VRI and electrical, valve-in-head stations, power, water and machines (Power, water and machines) and Irrigation management with the daily water balance, the runoff potential, the capacity against the peak, the programme by station, fertigation by stage and the field evaluations (Agronomy and irrigation scheduling). The mainline tab also holds the pump stations (the duty of every pump in every system flow) and the real operation of the zones; the water requirements tab holds Slope by irrigated area, and the crop requirement tab the Data sources and credits. Under its title every table names the criteria it shows and the standards they follow (Title block and technical documents).

Tables are virtualised, with columns measured from their content, and are the basis of every exporter, so PDF, Excel and CSV show the same numbers. A click on a header sorts the table (again reverses it, a third time gives back the order of the report), a filter keeps the rows with a text or only the highlighted ones, the visible rows copy to the clipboard (to paste into a spreadsheet) and the tab saves as CSV; a row of zones, pipes, emitters, comments or revisions selects and frames its item on the drawing. Export report works without a design for the tables that do not need one (water, crop, comments, revisions, requirements…).

PDF sheets

File → Export drawing → PDF opens the plot options: size (A4 to A0, Letter, Tabloid, the elongated sheets of ISO 5457 from A3×3 to A0×2, ANSI C, D and E, or a custom size from 100 to 5000 mm a side for plotter rolls), orientation, scale (automatic or fixed; "1.500" typed is 1500), margin, wetted radii, labels, layer legend, bill of materials on the sheet, the base map of the screen under the drawing (with its credit, and below it those of the base map pictures kept for the field and of the online elevation shown) and attached report pages. A PDF can hold a set of sheets: one sheet, or an overview plus one sheet per zone or per irrigated area (each fitted to its subject with its own materials, the other zones in grey or hidden), and the current screen view as an extra sheet at its own scale; then construction details (trench, thrust block, valve box, sprinkler riser and swing joint, drip line connection, air valve, filter station, pump suction) drawn with the design's own pipes, depths, models and pressures; and charts (the mainline grade line of every system flow, the terrain profile and the pump curves with their duty points). Revision clouds and open comments print on the sheets, and the revision table lists them under the legend. The scene is built in "paper space": pens, symbols and texts in paper millimetres, so that 1:500 and 1:2000 are equally legible. The title block carries the project details, the north arrow and the scale bar; with the fields of File → Title block and technical lead… it becomes the professional title block, and the options add a UTM or geographic coordinate grid and extra slope and aspect sheets (Title block and technical documents). The dialog shows a preview of every sheet of the set, made again after each option. Two more options: layers in the PDF, one per layer of the project and one for the base map, switched on and off in the viewer, and PDF/A-2b for archiving (public bodies), a PDF 1.7 with its identifier, the XMP of its information, an sRGB output intent and every font embedded (the Helvetica text drawn with Noto Sans at Helvetica's widths; without the font the file does not call itself PDF/A).

The PDF writer is our own (PDF 1.4, Flate compression), with no native dependencies: the text Helvetica can show stays in Helvetica, and any other script (Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Chinese, Japanese) is set with embedded subsets of the bundled Noto fonts, shaped and ordered (bidirectional text) by the app itself, so copy and search give the text back. Images are embedded (JPEG passed through, other images with their transparency) and downsampled for the size they are printed at. The same sheet exports as PNG (File → Export drawing → PNG, 96 to 300 dpi, about 40 megapixels at most).

Commercial quote and alternatives

Design → Commercial quote… turns the bill of materials into a quote: sale prices with the margin, labour, trench excavation (volumes from the buried pipes and the trench settings, with the default depth of the mainline pipes, 0.6 m, and of the zone pipes, 0 = on the surface, for those without their own, which the automatic tools use too), extra lines, discount, taxes and freight, validity and terms; payback, net present value and internal rate of return from a yearly benefit; a construction schedule from the crews and their output per day; the FINAME codes (financing by the Brazilian development bank BNDES) of the items that have one. Design → Design alternatives… keeps named copies of the project with their key figures, compares them side by side and restores one in one undo step.

Exports