FYI - pipeworks issue to be aware of

[abronson]

I've noticed an issue we should all be aware of in pipe works.

If you are adding a pipe in two different profiles within the same drawing ( one to reflect the profile of the a storm pipe, the other to reflect the crossing of the same storm pipe with regards to say a water line profile). You can only assign one pipe style to the storm pipe. This limits how the pipe is displayed in one profile or the other. I found you can't assign a profile crossing style to one profile, and a double wall pipe style to the other.

Also be aware that if you erase the crossing pipe in the water profile, the storm profile pipe is also erased in the second profile, however the plan view of the pipe remains intact. You then need to redraw the storm pipe in profile view. You should pay special attention to this pipe in the future. I noticed one instance the deleted pipe somehow reappeared and I had two pipe objects for the same pipe in the storm profile, one object of which I had to delete.

[Anonymous]

You don't have to delete it in the profile. Turn it off in the View
Properties Box (Networks) window. If you have a pipe active in the Profile
View Properties box (Networks) I can see no reason why you cannot change the
style there. I may be wrong, however.

Bill

wrote in message news:5034873@discussion.autodesk.com...
I've noticed an issue we should all be aware of in pipe works.

If you are adding a pipe in two different profiles within the same drawing
( one to reflect the profile of the a storm pipe, the other to reflect the
crossing of the same storm pipe with regards to say a water line profile).
You can only assign one pipe style to the storm pipe. This limits how the
pipe is displayed in one profile or the other. I found you can't assign a
profile crossing style to one profile, and a double wall pipe style to the
other.

Also be aware that if you erase the crossing pipe in the water profile, the
storm profile pipe is also erased in the second profile, however the plan
view of the pipe remains intact. You then need to redraw the storm pipe in
profile view. You should pay special attention to this pipe in the future.
I noticed one instance the deleted pipe somehow reappeared and I had two
pipe objects for the same pipe in the storm profile, one object of which I
had to delete.

[Anonymous]

You can also override pipe styles in the profile views. If you select the profile view properties, on the pipe networks tab you will see all of the pipes. 2 of the columns are style and style override. If you change the style property, it will change it for everything, but if you set the style override to a crossing pipe style, then it will change the display only in that profile view.

Rich Tiede
Manager CAD & Mapping Services
Larsen Engineers

[abronson]

Thanks for the reply. I see what you mean about the override, but I'm still having an issue with the crossing pipes displaying correctly.

I've checked the profile crossing style, but in addition to displaying the ellipse, I also see the profile pipe lines and can't seem to get them to turn off with the style override. It appears their may be two pipe objects atop one another. I can select each object separately and the properties for each object tells me its the same pipe. However, the profile pipe network dialog box indicates the pipe is only in the profile once.

Perhaps I'm missing something.

[Anonymous]

A. ...:
It is a good idea to keep the Pipe Network open. I have a button to just
give me the AutoCAD list command. This command will give me the pipe
number. Use this to see if by chance you have two pipes (numbers) in the
same location, etc. Also look in your Pipe Network in the same alignment
scheme, etc for a "tiny" pipe that got left behind.

Bill

wrote in message news:5035432@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks for the reply. I see what you mean about the override, but I'm still
having an issue with the crossing pipes displaying correctly.

I've checked the profile crossing style, but in addition to displaying the
ellipse, I also see the profile pipe lines and can't seem to get them to
turn off with the style override. It appears their may be two pipe objects
atop one another. I can select each object separately and the properties
for each object tells me its the same pipe. However, the profile pipe
network dialog box indicates the pipe is only in the profile once.

Perhaps I'm missing something.

[Anonymous]

Two things this could be ... If your crossing pipe crosses on a non-perpendicular angle then you will get this type of display. I have seen this happen once in 1 file of mine. I deleted the pipes from the profiles and re-added them to the profiles and they seemed fine after that. I assumed there may have been something corrupt in my file. Other than that it has worked fine and as I would expect.

Rich Tiede
Manager CAD & Mapping Services
Larsen Engineers