Single Line Piping

[Anonymous]

Has anyone been able to get a decent looking single line representation of
3d piping?
I've fiddled with this in the past and have no desire to do so again,
unless it truly is possible.
If so can you post a picture?
Do symbol planes for parametric parts work yet?
Do rise drops trim properly yet?
Is valve symbology still dependent on the size of the valve model?

Thanks,
Jeb

[Anonymous]

Assuming that you want the piping to show up as 1 line while in model (or a perspective) view try going to “Format>Style Manager>Piping Objects folder, expand piping system definitions and click which discipline you want to look single line. Then in the right hand window select the Pipe Size Displays and click the check boxes? Go back to the drawing and see how it looks then to get the connectors to display as single line go back to same place and click the Display Properties tab and with Model (being the display representation) deselect (turn off light bulb) connector and connector single line. You can also do this by right clicking the fitting while in the drawing in a perspective view and in the context menu scroll down and select Edit Object Display. You might have to play with scaling the Pipe Rise Drop Styles under the same Piping Objects folder or you might have redo the rise and drop blocks themselves, I’m not sure on this.

[gregg.stanley]

There are a few options for 1 line piping in autocad mep. You can use the Single Line and Graphical 1 line based on size and using the plan / model displays or you can use the 1 line Displays which are similar to the single line display. The difference between the Single line and Graphical is the scale. Single line is always real scale and graphical is scaled to the plot scale based on the location of connector 1 of the object which may cause some issues. Also the size of the symbol drastically affects the display.

If you only want 1 line displays, you may want to space items out to appear correct in plan view. Like you would of done when drawing simple 2D plans.

The 1 line mvpart symbols scale to 95% of the laying length between connectors.

The rise drop trimming and scaling issues were fixed in 2009.

HTH

Gregg Stanley
AutoCAD MEP QA Edited by: gregg.stanley@autodesk.com on Feb 20, 2009 7:54 PM