Creating Piping Runs

Determine the section lengths and amount of material required for piping runs. Piping runs can be drawn by clicking the Piping Run tool on the Objects palette, by drawing a polygon and selecting the Create Piping Runs command, or by drawing a polyline and selecting the Objects from Polyline command (see Creating Objects from Polylines).

To create a piping run:

1.	Draw one or more polygons to represent the piping run.

2.	With the polygon(s) selected, choose AEC > Electrical > Create Piping Runs.

The piping run results are displayed and can be edited in the Object Info palette. An existing piping run can be reshaped with the 2D Reshape tool, and the path polyline can be edited by selecting Edit from the context menu (see Editing a Group).

 

Parameter	Description
Conduit Size	Specifies the diameter of the conduit
Material	Select the piping run material from the list; this selection can be displayed in the piping run tag
Remarks	Specify any remarks to be displayed in the piping run tag
Show Tag	Select to display the piping run Conduit Size and Material
Show Remarks	Select to display the piping run Remarks; Show Tag must be selected in order to display the remarks
Length	Displays the length of the piping run
Section Length	Specifies the length of piping run sections; edit this parameter to determine various piping run requirements
Num of Runs	Specify the number of runs; increase the number to estimate the additional material required
Num of Sections	Displays the number of sections required
Couplings	Displays the number of couplings required
Turns	Specifies the type of turns to use for the piping run corners
Use Bends	Bends the conduit and includes the bend in the length
Use Elbows	Counts the number of 45o and 90o elbows and displays the number
Radius	Specify the bend radius
45s / 90s	Displays the number of elbow turns (when Use Elbows is selected)

The piping run does not count turns at a junction box (at the location of an electrical object).