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h5. The Design Team
It has long been the vision of AguaClara to automatedautomate the design process for water treatment plants. The goal is to create a tool that allows engineers to enter certain parameters like the plant flow rate for their town and have our program deliver an AutoCAD drawing, a report describing the plant, and a materials list. With the ambitious goals our team has set to meet the [Global Demand for AguaClara Technology] we have made developing and testing this design tool a top priority.
The design of the AguaClara plants is governed by our [Design Philosophy] and our commitment to [Open Source Engineering].
h5. Team Calendar, Challenges, Meeting Details and Training Challenge
[Calendar|Design Calendar]
[Challenges|Design Challenges]
[Design Team Reports|Design Team Reports]
h5. Automated Design Program
The Automated Design [Master Program|Automated Design Algorithms] integrates all of the Design Programs in order to automatically design and draw future water treatment plants. The individual algorithm and program descriptions can be linked to from the Master Program link above.
The web based application is being built using MathCAD as the computation engine, AutoCAD for 3-D drawing, and a LabVIEW programs (see [Download Design Tool]) for the distributed client software that sends requests to the dedicated server software that controls MathCAD and AutoCAD using ActiveX.
h5. Automated Design File Control
In order to create our Automated Design tool, we have created many program files that each complete specific individual components of the design. These files are continuously being updated and debugged. We have decided to use a file management system (SourceForge) to keep track of all of the program files and the version changes. Information about this software and how to use it can be found by following the link below.
*[*SubVersion*|SubVersion]* *Version Control Management Software*
h5. Plant Designs
As AguaClara gets new requests for treatment plants, the design team at Cornell completes and reviews designs for the plant. A plant design includes design and construction details along with AutoCAD drawing. All of this information can be found on the design team's [Plant Designs page|Plant Design Projects].
Our Honduras partners compile basic information about a town requesting a plant design. This information by the design team to create the detailed designs described above. The Honduras team also records pictures and data about the construction and functioning of a particular plant. This information can be found on the [Project Sites|Project Sites] page.
h5. Create an AguaClara Drawing
A [guide|Design^Guide to create AguaClara drawings.docx] on how to create AguaClara drawing is available together with an example of the way it should look like when presented to the user (see [Layout 1|https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/10421162/Layout1.pdf] & [Layout 2|https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/10421162/Layout+2.pdf]).
h5. Current Work
* [Automated Design|Automated Design Team]
h5. Previous Work
Work done by previous Design sub-teams can be found on the [Previous Team Work Page|Previous Design Team Work]. The work is broken down by semester as a way to document the improvements and changes made within the team over the years.
h5. Presentations
See [presentations|Design Presentations] given by past design teams. | 