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■ To document individual routes and runs, create design view representations
in which you turn off the visibility of unnecessary components, and then
apply them to appropriate drawing views.
■ Use broken views to fit long nondescript sections of pipe on a drawing.
■ Use detail views to show selected fittings.
■ To dimension routes and runs correctly, recover route centerlines. To
dimension unpopulated routes, you can recover route centerlines.
■ Add the Pipe Length and Stock Number properties to parts lists and a Bill
of Materials table.
■ To create BOMs for specific routes and runs, set their BOM Structure
property to Reference.
General Workflow for Documenting Pipe Runs
To document a tube and pipe assembly, you may need to use the following
workflow.
Workflow: Document a tube and pipe assembly
1 Create a tube and pipe assembly containing populated or unpopulated
routes.
2 Edit design views for the drawing file if you want to output specific views,
especially in some complicated assemblies.
3 Optionally, edit drawing templates.
4 Create one or more base views.
5 Create other required views from the base view or any available parent
views.
6 Recover route centerlines and dimension routes and runs.
7 Create and export the BOMs.
8 Create parts lists.
9 Add balloons to the pipe run components and annotate drawings with
the piping style data.
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