While it is a fairly simple task to turn a 25,000-pipe model into a 5,000-pipe model, it is much more difficult to do this while maintaining the network behavior with the same degree of accuracy achieved by the more complex model. Skelebrator allows you to perform a greater degree of skeletonization while maintaining the hydraulic behavior of the larger, more explicit model. This is accomplished by allowing pipes with varying attributes to be merged into a single new pipe that accounts for the differing attributes, thereby retaining the behavior of that area of the network and, by extension, the model as a whole.