Converting existing piping to lines?

[FrancoisKloppers]

Hi everyone,

We are busy with a duplicate plant but with different specs. 

I know you can line to pipe, but is it possible to convert thos pipe lines back to plain lines/polylines for future pipes in a new specification?

Thanks! Would really appreciate any input.

[patpat79]

As far as I know, you cant, you can only trace it by polyline/line if you want to have the result you want, well thats what i know.

[FrancoisKloppers]

I think that will be the only thing to do, but it's just weird that theres no such option. I mean, the intellegent lines are already there and just need to change to ordenary lines. O, well. Thanks  .

[patpat79]

When a line is converted to a 3d piping, it loses its property as a poly line like it is deleted, thats what i know.

[Arun_Kumar_K]

Yes, this is one wish list I too require, sometimes when I want to convert 100 NB to 25, it is not possible in plant 3d. That time I wonder, if some feature like pipe to line if there, it would simplify my remodel the whole. This feature is there in CADWORX.

[jabowabo]

There is an 'erase' option in the command line to not delete the line when converting to pipe. It would be nice to convert piping back to a line though.

[TomislavGolubovic]

If you're converting existing piping to another spec, why not just select it and change the spec in the properties?

[FrancoisKloppers]

We are waiting for the new spec from the client and want to continue with the rest of the plant civils, steelwork etc. The piping makes the drawing a bit slow. I did however end up taking all the piping to it's own sheet and added them as xrefs. Makes it a bit smaller. I will then just change the piping when we eventually receive the specs from the client.

Thanks guys! Appreciate all the help.

[Arun_Kumar_K]

@ Tomislav: for spec change no issue, problem arises when converting BV end pipes to SW end pipes, say for example 100 NB to 25 NB.

[james.lofthouse]

needing a solution to this also, I need to export pipe to PL and add pipe sizes to the polylines. I use ortho annotate to apply pipe sizes but these can't seem to be exported or exploded. does anyone have a work around, tracing with a 3dpoly isn't an option I want to consider yet as i've over 7km of pipe.