EPLANT-Piping Basic Tutorial: PIPING COMPONENTS

PLACING PIPING COMPONENTS: GENERAL

There are several ways to place a Piping Component in a 3D Model. In any case, the corresponding Piping Line Name has to be already defined. See Line Generation.

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DEFINE A LINE ROUTE BY PLACING ELBOWS

Instead of generating an Explicit Line Route it is possible to place Elbows and Tees using the Virtual Axis associated to each Connection Point of an already placed Piping Component.

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PLACE A BRANCH COMPONENT

Branch Components can be either automatically selected from the Branch Table associated to the Piping Class (if defined) or manually selected.

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PIPES

Although Pipes are generally automatically placed, there are several cases when Pipes has to be placed manually, for example when connecting different lines.

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HALF COUPLING ON A BLIND FLANGE

In this case a new Connection Point will be added to the Flange to be able to connect a Half Coupling as a Branch.

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TYPICAL ASSEMBLIES

EPLANT-Piping Typical Assemblies are predefined 3D Models that can be inserted and associated to the selected Piping Line.

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OUT OF SPECIFICATION

Although not advisable, if the Project Setup allows it, any component can be placed without the reference of a Piping Class. Parameters that are normally assigned by the Piping Specification are prompted.

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FLOW DIRECTION

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COPY / DELETE COMPONENTS

Piping Components can be copied using the standard COPY command of the CAD system in use.
To delete any component simply use the ERASE command.

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RESPECIFICATION AND CATALOG CHECKING

This command allows to automatically synchronize a 3D Model with the current Piping Specifications and Dimensional Catalog.

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COMPONENTS / LINES VERIFICATION

If Line Definitions are modified after having generated components of the same lines, there is a command that found all possible inconsistencies and allows to easily fix them:

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SPOOLS FOR PREFABBRICATE

Spools subdivision of a piping line:

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WELDING CODES GENERATION

Welding Codes are unique identifiers for both Shop and Field Weldings.

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SURFACE <> SOLID CONVERSION

Allows to change the representation of EPLANT Primitive Solids.

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PIPING COLOR CHANGING

Used to synchronize the 3D Model colors in case the Fluid Color Table is changed.

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VERTICAL AXIS REFERENCE

A reference to a Vertical Axis can be associated to any component, to be able to automatically dimension between the selected component and the reference axis in the isometric drawing.

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LINE MODIFICATION

This command has two options: to Modify Piping Line Parameters in the Line Definition (and therefore changing the way future Components will be generated) and to change parameters of Piping Components already placed.

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LINE COPY

This command allows to copy an existing Piping Line with a new name.

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LINE DELETE

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MODIFY LINE STATUS

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LINE / EQUIPMENT PURGE

It is used to Purge Line and Equipment Definitions for those Lines and Equipments that do no longer have any component, but its definition.

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CONNECTIVITY CHECK

This command allows to verify the correct connection amongst each Piping Components of the selected Piping Line. Although a Connectivity Verification is automatically executed during Isometric Extraction, this command allows to detect any disconnection and fix them.

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3D MODEL MATERIAL REPORT TO DATA BASE

This command exports to the Data Base Module all the content of the 3D Model. Upon opening this project, the Data Base Module will be automatically updated.

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INTERFERENCE CHECKING

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LINE VISIBILITY

Each Piping Line is placed on a codified layer name. Use the following command to set them on/off. Similar to the Equipment Visibility.

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CHECKING WITH P&IDs

3D Models can be checked against P&IDs looking for inconsistencies. P&IDs can be either from the EPLANT-P&ID module or from any other system, provided that Line, Equipment, Valve and Instrument Lists are stored in XLS format.

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TYPICAL SUPPORT STRUCTURES

This command give access to several related commands to place Typical Structures used to support piping directly or through Supports.

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Last updated September 26th, 2020.