Pipe Router

Pipework Design User Guide

Pipe Router

The Pipe Router utility is a rule-based tool which allows the user to automatically route multiple or single pipes. If non-orthogonal pipes are required, the user can create these manually, refer to Quick Pipe Routing for further information.

The pipe(s) are routed, from the branch’s head and ends at the branch’s tail, positioning and orientating piping components (reducers and welds), and where appropriate adding connection components such as flanges and gaskets. The flow direction is always forwards (from head to tail). The pipes are created orthogonally and with the minimum number of bends or elbows and where possible clash-free.

The user can constrain the route taken by the pipe(s) with the use of routing points, planes, rules and pipe racks and if required, modify the route once it has been created. Refer to Automatic Pipe Route Administration for further information.

All the tasks that a user would carry out that are associated with the Pipe Router utility are initiated from a central Pipe Router window which acts as a task hub.

To open the Pipe Router window, on the Piping tab, in the Tools group, click Pipe Router to display the Pipe Router window.

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