AutoCAD Plant 3D

[#1]

Is there a way I set a limit for piping to never exceed 40 ft or some other number?

[#2]

It's true. Is nesessary to do like this in next release:

And install flange connection automatically every max length.

[#3]

What I was actually looking for was a way for the length of pipe to be no more then 40 ft, but then get welded onto another pipe in the iso drawing. The closest I can get to it right now is inserting a break at the 40 ft mark and hope people realize that they needs to be a weld there. I just have to figure out how to get the break to be at exactly 40 ft, and for the ISO to show that measurement. 

[#4]

For this you need to insert iso symbol in the model 3D, the name of symbol is "break point":

To view this symbol in the 3D model after insert is nessessary activate Wireframe view, there is one small sphere.

[#5]

My problem is not placing in a break point just placing one in exactly where I want one. There seems to be no logic where they go, unless it is at a node.

[#6]

MANUAL METHOD...you could add a custom part....

make an object (line or circle or donut or...)

turn to block...plantpartconvert (add 2 ports, starting from same point and going out in opp directions)....skey=WW (or WF for field weld), type=WELD

you can then use dynamic input to make it a distance (40ft?) from the last weld or fitting.

[#7]

Thank you that worked very well.

[#8]

It worked good for all of the Welds except the 3" weld, for some reason  it says can't connect Eccentric ports. I did the exact same thing for all the other welds that I did for the 3" weld.

Has anybody ran across this before and know how to fix it or know why it could be wrong?

[#9]

plant is pretty niggly about alignment errors...change your units to max decimal places and measure your nodes you will probly find that there has been a rounding error while drafting...i find ones that for no apparrent reason are 0.00000234 units out of whack giving the misalign error...I sometimes need to remake custom parts 2 or 3 times doing seemingly the same thing every time and hey presto on go 3 it works (freud said the defenition of crazy is repeating the same process and expecting a different result...its official...plant, you make me crazy ;p )