Interference Lines not showing up.

[jacob.ellerbrock]

Does anyone have advice on how to get interference lines to show up in ortho views. I believe they aren't showing currently to show that the pipe isn't truly square to itself but it is within our tolerance that we don't worry about it. That being said, we like the lines to show up in our drawings and our current solution is to draw them in manually which is kind of a pain. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[Michiel.Valcke]

May I ask how did you create this view (step by step), this does not look like the default generated ortho view.
This looks like a regular viewport looking at the 3D model space with the 'hidden' visual style.

I cannot recreate your issue with the standard Plant 3D views.

[jacob.ellerbrock]

1) Go to Orthographic view

2) Right click and select "New Drawing..."

3) I then select "New View"

Is this not the proper way to create a view?

[Michiel.Valcke]

It should be the correct method. I just thought that maybe you manually created viewports with a hidden visual style. As you would do in vanilla AutoCAD, which would explain the missing linework.

Since I can't recreate it in my version of Plant 3D the next questions become:

which version are you using?

do you have all updates?

If you turn off hardware acceleration while creating the view do you have the same issue?

Do you experience the same issue in different projects? on different workstations?
Do you have the issue only with pipelines which are not 100% inline? (if it's this one, then I'm afraid it will probably be hardcoded into the ortho view generation function)

[jabowabo]

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@jacob.ellerbrock wrote:

I believe they aren't showing currently to show that the pipe isn't truly square to itself but it is within our tolerance that we don't worry about it.

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Skewed lines and/or piping far from the origin is likely the cause. This has been an issue for a long time. AFAIK, there is no fix other than fixing those factors.

[jacob.ellerbrock]

My guess is on the skewed lines. Half of the model was made using a scan and then using the line to pipe function. I'd be willing to bet that the lines generated by the scan weren't true to everything else but was hoping that the program could understand this instead of just leaving the intersecting lines out.