Idea, Pipe Flow Direction

[jessem5CN9L]

Hi all! My engineers on their projects will manually add text and flow arrows overtop their plumbing lines (example below) in an effort to make things clearer once it's printed in black and white. I realize this might be a bit more of an AutoCAD mentality, but I'm wondering if there's a way we could make these labels and arrows part of the piping system itself?

Ideas on how I could go about this? I'm hoping to save them some time on redundant activity.

[iainsavage]

The lettering can easily (and indeed should) be a tag rather than text. Create a pipe tag which reads the system abbreviation. Apply it without a leader. The tag will automatically populate its text depending on which pipe system it is placed on.

The arrows can also be a pipe tag with special characters (wingding font) to represent the arrows but you need to manually orientate the arrow, it won't automatically read the flow direction from the pipe. Usually you would have two types in the family, one for right & up, the other for left & down.

Try to limit the use of dumb text as much as possible.

[HVAC-Novice]

this is a really great question, and idea by iainsavage. Please share if you come up with a family or similar. 

[iainsavage]

I'll donate these families for you to try.

[cesar67P3S]

Amazing!! Thanks a lot!