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Pipe design Plastic pipe in AutoCAD MEP

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jimmy_hojmark
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Pipe design Plastic pipe in AutoCAD MEP

I am wondering why don't Autodesk by hardcoding make plastic pipe as it looks
In the real world.

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Also it's not able to create this by the content builder.
I want to make the male and female sides of the pipe.
I have never seen any pipes without the slip hub in any storage shop.

 

 

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Pipe design Plastic pipe

 

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Washingtonn
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The sizes normally used with the AutoCAD MEP software are usually smaller diameter and gravity piping which would have glued joints and piping with both ends having square cuts - the fittings would have the integral hubs.

Creating pipe and fittings which show real world detail is not typically needed for construction drawings within buildings so such details are minimized in order to keep file size down, simplify the programs used, and to be efficient with available project time.

Examples of hub and spigot pipe (SVWT) with gasketed joints (top) and pressed (PressFit) copper pipe and fitting (bottom) can be seen in the picture below.  Probably as detailed as you are going to get with any program.

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jimmy_hojmark
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Hello thanks for reply
Soil or Sanitary Gravity pipe with glued connection is very unusual, the
connections are usually push connection with rubber gasket.

I use tag and schedule so it goes wrong. But it is possible to get around
with text changes on the table. I don't think there will be much of a
difference in capacity if there is a hub at the end of a pipe.

It feels wrong when the pipes don't follow the same way as reality does.

You may not need to follow exactly to keep the detail down but it should be
as close as possible.

//Jimmy Hoejmark


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