Draw Pretty Pipes

Layer(s): SPRKVIEW

Shortcut: PP

Associated: Manual Pipe Break / Change Item Colors

Ribbon: Cleanup Panel

Draw thick Polylines on top of existing mains and branch lines to give a better visual appearance for plotting. These polylines will be cut back and trimmed at sprinkler and riser pipe locations and will be broken where one pipe crosses over another.

You will be notified that the drawing must be elevated at least once before Pretty Pipes is run. This is done to properly set elevations so that the program knows which pipes are above or below other pipes.

You can set the desired polyline width, color and/or linetype of each of five piping elements.

If pipes cross each other, Pretty Pipes will be drawn with a pipe break symbol on the lower pipe (as shown here). If the drawing has not been 'raised up' to 3D after the piping and elevations have been assigned, you will be prompted to select the upper pipe.

You can edit the Break Gap and the Break Symbol with the Break Options.

If you have a System Boundary inserted you will be prompted to select it, or you can type in O for Objects and select those you want, or A for All objects:

Select Objects [All/SystemBoundary/Objects]<SystemBoundary>

Otherwise, the prompt is:

Select Objects [All/Objects]<All>:

Here is the result of a Pretty Pipe run.

Polylines have been drawn on top of the mains and the branch lines. These have been cut back and trimmed at sprinkler and riser pipe locations.

HydraCARDs (Troubleshooting)

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