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Pipe outlet rotation issues

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djacob01
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Pipe outlet rotation issues

I'm working on a project in AutoCAD MEP 2011 in which I need to put pipe outlets on the top and on the bottom of a length of pipe. However, outlet placement is behaving VERY strangely. First of all, when i place an outlet on a pipe, it will automatically snap to a certain direction, and cannot be placed facing in another direction. I cannot rotate the outlet around the axis of the pipe to place it at another angle, I need to actually rotate the whole pipe just to move the outlet. As a result, I cannot place outlets on opposite sides of a pipe. I managed to find a workaround, using two different pipes, one rotated to have the outlet facing up, one rotated to have the outlet facing down, then connecting the two. However first of all this is a huge pain, and second of all, when there's only one outlet on a length of pipe, autocad refuses to keep the outlet in the same place when rotating the pipe. It always moves to the end of the pipe. From this position, I cannot move the outlet from the end of the pipe, or copy out a new one to the position I want. It  just won't let me. So how do work around this? it's driving me insane.

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