Drain Side Batter Examples
OptiSurface Designer has a Breakline feature allowing designers to add earthworks features like drains. It can easily design the side batters of a drain using the 'Batter Breakline' tool as shown here: 3.4.17.1 Batter Breakline
This feature was used in designs like the Queensland Melonhole and Canadian Cereals & Oilseeds but the cross section profiles shown have the vertical scale exaggerated so it does not represent what it actually looks like in real life. Here's what a 10% (1:10) side batter looks like in the software:
![Image: https://optisurface.uservoice.com/assets/239754049/QueenslandMelonholes_Drain_CrossSection.png](https://optisurface.uservoice.com/assets/239754049/QueenslandMelonholes_Drain_CrossSection.png)
To better represent how these would appear in real life, see the illustrations below showing drain cross sections without vertical scale exaggeration and with different side batter slopes:
![Image: https://optisurface.uservoice.com/assets/239753995/SideBatters_V03.png](https://optisurface.uservoice.com/assets/239753995/SideBatters_V03.png)
Side batters of 1:20 (5%) up to 1:10 (10%) can be farmed without issues and machinery can go over them and the slopes are generally barely noticeable at all.
![Image: https://optisurface.uservoice.com/assets/123776674/Ed.png](https://optisurface.uservoice.com/assets/123776674/Ed.png)