Re: Piping spool number and isometric break

Which piping design system do you use? Each one features a different interface. Easily half of Isogen is actually the 3d piping modeling system and its interface. additional comments below marked with [RJS]

>> can you tell us where the command is to tell isogen where to break. We
have not been able to find this option.
[RJS] In the PCF file these are written as: ISO-SPLIT-POINT <coord> Each CAD system will likely have its own implementation of how to populate these. In AutoPLANT, for example, you would place "Isometric stop signs" at the split points.

>> we have been exporting selected pipes into A2 size , then shrinking down
to fit into our a3 template Otherwise isogen creates too many drawings with only too shorty little "pups" per dwg. Not a great workaround. I like your "select the break points" , but where are the options/commands to do that.?? [RJS] Have you tried configuring the drawing density (switch 38) to push more data on each sheet? You can also configure margins(switches 10-13), text sizes (switch 27) dimension standout, and even the length of fittings. These are set in the options file too.

>>>Also are you saying isogen will creat the welder flags for each weld for the weld mapping. I didnt know isogen would do that. I agree wait to the end, and we have done that separately & manually at end of generating isos. [RJS] Isogen will assign weld and/or numbers for you if you like or you can pass them to Isogen in the PCF file. Either way you can output a weld summary to the drawing or to a text file. You can even format the weld report with any/all data you passed in the PCF file using a weld definition file.

There are so many ways to operate Isogen that a big part of a projects success is a well thought out Isogen stratgy. Received on Thu Oct 21 17:36:00 2004