Two Questions

[universalpiping]

I have a couple of questions reguarding Plant.

In my isometric drawing,

1) The cut peice list is not accurate.  It doesnt seam to be taking off the correct values for some fittings. Also, I have to take a 1/8" for every weld and I was hoping there was a setting in the software that I could have it automatically generated.

2) In the spec editor i loaded type c stub ends into the ss150 spec.  I can see them in the project spec viewer but I can not actually insert them into the model or the tool pallett.  What do I have to do to insert it into the drawing?

[PeterQuinn]

The first question - you're getting 1/8" to much at welds. There is a weld gap setting in the project settings that you should set. I don't believe it's retroactive though. New connections will get a weld gap but it won't go back and add them to the pipes you've previously modeled.

[universalpiping]

Anyone else have any advice??

[jason.drew]

On issue #2 you cannot manually place stub-ends in the model because they are configured to be connectors in the Connection/joint properties of the project by default. If you have the proper parts in spec (stub-end, lap joint flange, gasket, bolt kit) when you place the lap joint flange it will automatically add the stub ends.

Please see this post for more information:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Plant-3D/Stub-end-for-lap-flange/m-p/3081492/highlight/true#M2696

Thank you,

[Anonymous]

Try this for your cut length problems:

Open Isoconfig.xml in project folder. e.g. Project\Isometric\Final_ANSI-C

Change Precision value to Precision5.

<Style Name="ImperialPipeLength" UnitFormat="Architectural" Precision="Precision5" Prefix="" Suffix="" Scale="1" Decimal="."/>

In this case, the total length of pipe in BOM will rounded as well since both pipe length in BOM and cut piece length use the same style.

Hope this helps, you can also refer to my previous post: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Plant-3D/Plant3d-2012-cut-piece-list-issues/m-p/3154792/highli...

Chad