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Model building process

✏️Course in Development

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With your data gathered and your software chosen, it's time to roll up your sleeves and start the actual model building process. This section outlines a systematic, step-by-step methodology to guide you from raw data to a functional hydraulic model.

The journey typically begins with data extraction and integration. Here, we'll focus on practical techniques to combine those GIS layers, customer usage databases, and asset inventories into a unified modeling environment. This might involve creating consolidated datasets or even a dedicated geodatabase specifically for your modeling project to ensure consistency and traceability.

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