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Chapter 6 Working with Pipes
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Creating Finished Draft Runs in Plan View
The Draw Pipes (Finish Draft Plan) command inserts and labels illustrative
blocks, defined in the Structure Library, for each node in the run. It also draws
and labels pipes between structures. The linetype of the run changes to reflect
the setting in the Plan Pipe Drafting Settings dialog box.
The following illustration shows an imported finish draft plan detail:
Imported finish draft plan run detail
To create finished draft runs in plan view
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From the Pipes menu, choose Finish Draft Plan ä Draw Pipes.
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Do one of the following:
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Select the pipe run.
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Press ENTER and select the run from the Defined Runs dialog box. Click OK.
If the finished draft plan pipe run has been previously drawn, then you can
have the particular layers deleted automatically by responding Yes to the
following prompt:
Delete Selected Pipe Run <{name}> Layers (Yes/No/Cancel)? <Yes>:
Erasing entities on layer <{name}FINPL> ...
Erasing entities on layer <{name}PLTXT> ...
Importing finish pipes for run <{name}>.
Position for structure label (Picking/Offset) <Offset>:
Enter delta x <0.00>:
Enter delta y <0.00>:
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Place the structure label by selecting locations or by entering offsets:
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Type P (for Picking) to specify the location for each structure label as the
finished draft plan pipe run is drawn.
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Type O (for Offset) to enter x and y offset distances relative to each structure
for the subsequent location of all the structure labels.
The following informational prompts are displayed:
Processing...
Processing invert list.
You are then prompted whether or not to rotate the structures as they are
drawn:
Rotate structures (Yes/No/Cancel)? <Yes>:
Pick rotation angle: