Swapping the Arrive and Leave P-points

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Piping, Ducting and Cable Trays : Standard Component Attributes : Swapping the Arrive and Leave P-points

This command swaps the Arrive and Leave p-point numbers of a Component so that it can be ‘Flipped’. It does not actually rotate the Component until the next orientation command is given. The FLIP command can be given before Selection, as the Arrive and Leave p-point numbers are Design attributes independent of the Catalogue.

As most Specifications are organised with Reducers having PBOR1 larger than PBOR2, the Select mechanism needs to be told that the Arrive is at P2 by FLIP Selection. Therefore NEW REDU FLIP SELECT WITH LBORE 100 would be a typical command for a bore increase.

When working in BACKWARDS mode, this situation reverses - the REDU need only be Flipped if a bore reduction is required.


Example:
FLIP	Reverses the current Arrive and Leave p-point numbers for that Component.

Command Syntax:

>-- FLIP -->

Querying:

>-- Query --+-- ARRive --.
            |            |
            ‘-- LEAve ---+-->

Figure 8:5.

Component Arrive and Leave attributes (standard and Flipped)