ProjectsThe utilities of a new residential street

Bachhausen-Süd development

A residential street of 150 m with a turning head and 22 plots. Separate sewers, water, power and fibre each lie in their zone, every plot has its house connections, and every fibre its path from the PoP into the house.

3D view of the development in Linework: the street with its turning head on the terrain, plot boundaries as lines.

Still from the app

Plots
22
Street
150 m
Splices
552
Fibre paths
264
Loss at most
1.4 dB
Sheets
12

A click opens the whole sheet for zooming. The sheets are labelled in German, as the project is.

Coordinated utilities plan

Sewers in the carriageway, water in the western footway, power in the eastern one, fibre in the microduct bundle. The mains run around the turning head, and the house connections branch off at right angles.

01Site planM 1:500A1
02Coordinated utilities planM 1:250A1

Section and long sections

The typical section cuts the utilities at a station and draws each at its depth, with the zone of every utility beneath. Sewer levels come from the road, with 2.20 m and 1.80 m minimum cover.

03Typical section with utility zonesM 1:50A3
04Long sections, waste and storm waterM 1:500A1

Fibre to the home

A feeder cable with 288 fibres from the PoP to the distribution point, two microduct bundles, one 12-fibre cable per house. 22 of 48 microducts are in use. The splice plan has 288 splices at the PoP and 264 at the distribution point; the fibre paths are 103 to 286 m long.

05Fibre network (FTTH)M 1:500A1
09Duct occupancy, microduct bundle–A1
10Splice plan, PoP and distribution point–A1
11Fibre allocation with loss budget–A1

Built with

The project is a script of Linework commands. These are the main ones.

roadsectionsewerheightshouseconnectionfiberconnectionnetclearanceoccupancyspliceplanfibertracematerialchecknetcheck

Command reference

What the project showed

A whole project finds errors that one example per command does not.

Found and closed

  • The typical section showed only carriageway, kerb and footway. Now it cuts the utilities too.
  • House connections for water and power did not exist in one step.
  • Seven places around the turning head were too tight. Since the mains run around it beneath the footway, they are gone.

Open

  • The clearance check still finds one tight place: a water service crosses the storm sewer 0.75 m from a manhole.
  • The trench section of a route with several utilities is not drawn.

Download the drawings

The development and the operator are made up. Depths and clearances are the example’s inputs, and the loss is a planning value.

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Product
FrameMind Linework
Version
0.19.2
Date
13 November 2026
Platform
macOS, Apple silicon
Windows
in preparation
Price
free

The wheel zooms, dragging pans, a double click shows everything.