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Connected flanges to xref Equipment nozzles

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Stumble
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Connected flanges to xref Equipment nozzles

I'm having trouble getting my flanges connecting (with gasket) to equipment that was xrefed.  Some are connected, some are not.  Can anyone help?

 

Thanks,

Bryan Appleton
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ybogdanov
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You need to look the difference between nozzles which have connected and which been not.
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Yury Bogdanov
ASIDEK(Grupo CT) - Partner Directo de Autodesk
Barcelona (Spain)
Message 3 of 9

Have you definitely connected to the 'node' OSNAP?



Tomislav Golubovic
Technical Specialist - Plant and Infrastructure
Autodesk Australia / New Zealand
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk ANZ YouTube Channel
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Rcfuss
in reply to: TomislavGolubovic

We are having the same exact issues with this.  All of our equipment are in their own drawings and are xref'd into our pipiing model.  When we pipe from the equipment there is a disconnect.  I read that this would be addressed in 2012 is this true?

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Rich.O.3d
in reply to: Rcfuss

its not the regen issue is it?

after you connect to the nozzle, use 'regen3' or shift middle mouse to orbit, the drip should dissapear

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Message 6 of 9

There is no issue with connecting to XREF models in 2011.

 

Can you post the DWG model here?



Tomislav Golubovic
Technical Specialist - Plant and Infrastructure
Autodesk Australia / New Zealand
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk ANZ YouTube Channel
Message 7 of 9

Its not so much that the connection has an issue...it connects ok, it more of a display issue.

When you connect to an xrefed equip nozzle, the water drop doesnt always dissapear, giving the illusion that the joint didnt connect, when actually it has.

If you orbit or regen3, then the water drop dissapears.

CAD Management 101:
You can do it your own way,
If its done just how I say!
[Metallica:And Justice For All:1988]
Message 8 of 9
Stumble
in reply to: Rich.O.3d

Thanks to everyone commenting.

Sorry I cannot post the drawing (customer privacy).  This seems to be more of an inconsistency issue.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  The flanges that were not connected are now connected after playing with it for a while.  They eventually connected with the basic right-click\connect to adjacent command after numerous attempts.  I will try the "regen3" the next time I have one that will not connect.

Thanks again.

Bryan Appleton
Message 9 of 9
ericjdj
in reply to: Stumble

Roman,

 

Maybe its an idea to model an existing flange on the coordinates of the xref flange. In the properties listing you can change it to existing. So it won't come out as a new one with isogen. But it continuous to its line number name. So if you give the existing flange the correct linenumber it should work.

 

Regards,

 

Eric Declemy

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