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194 | Chapter 14 Designing Pipe Runs
Drafting Conceptual Pipe Runs in
Profile View
You can draft a conceptual pipe run in profile view if you associated the plan
pipe run with an alignment or defined an alignment from the pipe run. You
can use the conceptual profile view of the pipe run to check for problems
with inverts and to make graphical changes to the run in profile view.
Key Concepts
■ Before you define a profile, you must have a defined alignment for the
pipe run.
■ Draft a profile in a drawing for the alignment that you are associating with
the pipe run.
■ The profile is drawn based on default pipe depths and dimensions listed
in the Pipe Data Settings dialog box, which can be accessed from the Pipes
Settings Editor dialog box.
■ Pipe runs are stationed in the same direction in which they are drawn.
To draft a conceptual profile pipe run
Steps Use to locate
1 Define a conceptual plan pipe run. Defining Polylines as Pipe
Runs
2 From the Alignments menu, choose Set Current
Alignment to select the alignment that you associated
with the pipe run or that you created from the pipe run.
Making an Alignment
Current
3 From the Profiles menu, choose Create Profile
➤ Full
Profile to create a full profile of the defined alignment.
Creating a Complete Profile
4 From the Pipes menu, choose Settings
➤ Edit to display
the Pipes Settings Editor.
Changing the Pipe Settings