pressure pipe network enhancements

[CADobi-wan]

There are too many restriction in the C3D pressure networks and I believe that they can be enhanced.

Incorporate the functionality of Plant 3D pipe specifications into civil 3D for pressure networks. This would make it easier to add fittings and appurtenances that are not included in the OOTB catalogs. Incorporate the pipe routing features from Plant 3D as well.

Pressure Fittings in profile view need to be updated as well since they look nothing like what the fitting should look like.

Rob (Autodesk AEC Collection 2018, 2019)
Civil Engineering Design Specialist/CAD Manager
www.CADmitment.com

[pcattaneoD62TE]

To add to this, some features that would make Pressure Pipe Networks USEABLE, as they're practically more inconvenient than manually drawing all required perspectives with 2D lines at the moment:

1. Merge Networks tool. This exists for Pipe Networks, so why has it been excluded for Pressure Pipe Networks?
2. Devoted copy tool for a network. It would be great if we weren't left with only two options for copying networks, one being the typed out "COPY" command, which often breaks the network altogether or keeps the selected network feature within the current network, and the other being "CTRL+C", which copies the entirety of the network and adds a (#) counter to the copied network name that is apparently unable to be reset (as far as I've found). Even just an option to "Create from Existing" in the Pressure Network Creation Tools like there is for Alignments would suffice.
3. Greater control over the naming of pipes and fittings. Adding features like refreshing pressure part names based on a change in the network name should be a given.
4. This is a longshot, but giving the ability to show vertical pressure pipes as they should appear in a profile view would be massively helpful. As of now, the only work-arounds are to make a fitting that is effectively a vertical pipe for EVERY length/size of vertical pipe needed or to draw the pipes in 2D in the profile view.

[TimYarris]

Hi @pcattaneoD62TE . Thanks for posting these ideas. Would you please break them out as separate ideas so others can vote on them individually? This will help us to prioritize them based on their relative importance to each other.