Cutting or putting holes in Pipes

[JohnHolder]

A pipes penetrates a piece of equipment on an angle - is it possible to cut the pipe ( and keep it a pipe object ) to have it flush with the inside wall of said equipment?

Also, is it possible to put holes in a pipe? ( and keep it a pipe object )  I have placed circles in the ortho drawings to depict the holes in some pipes.  Just curious if it is possible to model it, without changing it to a solid and converting it to equipment.

John.

[PeterQuinn]

Could you use a stubin to make the hole in a pipe? What's the hole for anyway? 

[JohnHolder]

I do not have a stub-in connection in my pipe catalog ( sch40 pvc )  I will try adding it in and see if it works.

Holes.. many many holes.

The pipes running along the vessel (bottom horizontal) will have two sets of holes on the bottom on a 45 deg angle to 'suck' up water off the bottom - to prevent settling - and move the water to the next chamber.

There will also be pipe 'manifolds'  where I have a horizontal pipe with a series of holes along the length of the pipe and water will be spraying out of the holes. usually 8 inch and larger.

And last of all pipe spraybars - vertically aligned with a series of holes from 10 to 60 plus - ND ~ 0.5 inch ( sometimes smaller or larger )  The other issue is sometimes they are paired ( side by side ) due to the amount of holes needed.

John.

edit.  I managed to edit the project properties and get a connection happening.  It simply attached it on the outside of the pipe.  so I played with more settings and now it just says it cannot find the stubin connection in the pipe spec.  I am unsure how to put it into the pipe spec.  So working on that now. 

Starting to thing it is just easier to draw circles on the ortho and describe it.

[quentin.contreras]

Do you have an example screen capture of what you are currently out putting for your orthos. Particularly showing the holes you have placed on the pipe. I have tried a couple of things here on my end and have not had much success. So, I am going to pass this along to development as an enhancement request. It would be great if I can get your example that way I can include it.

[JohnHolder]

Just at a jobsite for a few days I will get a screen shot of what I was doing in the next day or so.  Sory for the delay.

[JohnHolder]

7th attempt at replying now.

here is an example of some hole pipes we have to draw in.

 - one example of a method used to deliver supply water to a culture tank.

adding an attachment does not work so I had to insert the image into the message.

[JohnHolder]

I am just going to copy it to another file and explode it, shell it and cut the holes out. 

It works.. just was hoping there was a way to do it without breaking the 'pipe'