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- posted 09/10/07 by Ove Cervin Crossing Pipes in Profile View
- Hi all,
It has been some interesting weeks lately. Lot's of contact with users hearing their experiences with the software and their projects.
It has also been a lot of traveling, which sometimes causes my wife to complain ;-) Last week though I bought a nice box of pink colored, champagne tasting chocolate! Success!! ;-)
Anyway - this weeks tip will be on how to easily present Pipes in a Profile View using a Style Override.
Some people has not discovered the built in functionality in the dialog for Profile View Properties.
If you want to present a Profile where you have some crossing Pipes these can have a style presenting only the Pipe "circle". To assign this style the "easiest" way here's how to do:
Below is an area with a few pipes.
Here's a designed blue line (Alignment) that will get a Profile View where the Pipes are crossing.
When you create a Profile View for the Alignment you get the option to select Pipe Networks to be displayed.
If you here choose the "Select parts from screen" you can pick networks.
The advantage to do it this way instead of just tick mark the boxes in the dialog is that you get the Pipe Network objects visual in detail. Then you can uncheck the Structures and thing you don't want to see in the Profile View.
This gives you a Profile View with "your settings" and in my case the Profile View looks like this. Here's the crossing Pipes drawn with standard Style. This is not what I want.
If we then pick the Profile View and select right click "Profile View Properties" and the tab "Pipe Networks" it looks like this dialog.
The purpose here is to use the function "Style Override" for the Pipes. If we here select "Style Override" the selected style affects these Pipe objects - but only in this Profile View! (You don't want to change your ordinary settings "Properties" for the Pipe Network to have a style "Crossing" because that would affect all Profile Views that presents that Pipe Network)
Now the Profile View looks like this. Crossing Pipes.
Until next week - stay put!
Cheers! / Ove