CADWorx Video Training Series Lesson Four 3D Modeling

Lesson Four 3D Modeling

In this lesson you will learn how to: Easily Rotate the UCS to model in different planes Model lines in a method similar to drawing isometrics Create 3D Router Lines Automatically place elbows and pipe segments Generate Clipped Views using the CADWorx Viewbox command Annotate and Dimension in Paper Space on a Layout

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In this lesson you will construct three lines that are connected to exchangers and a vessel. Youll see a couple of ways these can be modeled: manual placement and using router lines. Both methods are effective, and the choice depends upon the geometry and information you have to work with. Generally speaking, a Router line is going to give you the fastest tool for constructing lines in 3D compared to other methods. First youll model the return lines, from the top of the exchangers going back into the vessel. 1. 2. Start a new drawing, using a template: Metric. Click File, Click Save As Browse to the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons folder. Save the drawing as 12-CPRA_B-1004-150_M. Click Insert, from the pull down menus in both 2009 and earlier versions. In AutoCAD 2009 there is also a button along the bottom of the screen, if you prefer.

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Starting the drawing

Inserting External Reference Files (XRefs)

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Click External References

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Click Attach Browse to your C:\CADWorx_Training\Examples folder and click on the 35-450 drawing and the Exchangers_Pair drawing (hold down the Control Key as you select them. Insert them in as Overlays and inserted at the 0,0,0 point, Scaled 1:1, and Rotated 0 as shown.

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You should have them in your attached drawings list as shown. Close the XRef dialog box (click the X at the top).

List of attached XRefs

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You will see your two XRefs now appearing on the drawing.

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Depending upon your AutoCAD version, you can use the 2009 3D Workspace and work your 3D views directly off that. For this lesson, bring up the AutoCAD View tool bar, if it is not already on your screen (this method works with all versions of AutoCAD). To do this, you can move the mouse pointed over any AutoCAD tool button, and Right Click on the Mouse. A list of tool bars will appear, and then you select the View Tool bar (2008 version illustrated).

Opening the View Tool bar

13. Dock the View tool bar at the top area on your screen. 14. Click on the South West Isometric View.

Viewing from a 3D skewed view SW Isometric Viewpoint

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Zoom into the lower left area of the drawing.

Zooming closer to the exchangers

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In this lesson, you will be modeling the two lines that return from the top of the exchangers into the vertical tower.

Getting an overview of whats to follow

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This will be a valuable lesson for you, because you will see a couple of different approaches to modeling these lines: placing fittings one by one, and also how to use a Router Line. The first thing to emphasize in the lesson is that modeling in 3D using CADWorx is easy. The developers of CADWorx have made 3D modeling as easy as doing a 2D Isometric drawing. Do you remember how, in doing an isometric, you flip the crosshairs from one plane to another using the F5 key on the keyboard? When you pressed the F5 key your crosshairs would rotate into the top plane, or vertical left hand plane, or vertical right hand plane. Do you remember how easy that is? Its a fast and easy way to do a pictorial drawing. Pressing the F5 Key flips the crosshairs in Isometric. Isometrics the traditional way to work

Its a short step from Isometrics to working in 3D when using CADWorx

Well working with CADWorx in 3D is very similar! Modeling in 3D in CADWorx has the same look and feel as creating a 2D Isometric drawing! If you think of it like this, then 3D modeling in CADWorx is a breeze!

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Instead of the F5 key to rotate your crosshairs, CADWorx uses their own UCS Toolbar, which does a similar function. 18. Now youll bring up the CADWorx (not AutoCADs) UCS tool bar (2008 version illustrated) Switching planes in 3D seems similar to flipping the crosshairs in isometric

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Click Plant (at the top of the screen) Click Tool Bars Click UCS The UCS tool bar will appear. Dock it in the top area of your screen. Notice how your crosshairs are oriented. Click the UCS Next button a few times, and notice how your crosshairs rotate. It looks very similar to how crosshairs rotate when you do isometrics!

In 3D, you click the UCS Next button to rotate the crosshairs (similar to hitting the F5 key on the keyboard when you did isometrics)

Now youll test this to get a feel of how this works. 25. Click the UCS Next button until your crosshairs are in the top plane. In 3D, you call this the Flat plane.

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Next youll set up your system to draw some test lines to see how this works. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Click Plant Click Setup Set the Main Size to 6. Set the Specification to 150_M. Set the Drawing Mode to 3D.

Practicing some 3D

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Pan the screen to the side, so that you are in a clear area. You will now draw a few fittings to get a good look at this. Make sure you have ORTHO turned on. Make sure you have ORTHO on

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Click Pipe Click a point for the start point of your pipe. Drag the mouse to the lower right direction and Type: 2500 <Enter> to draw a 2500mm length of pipe. Drawing a 3D pipe

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Click Elbow

38. 39. 40. Press <Enter> on the keyboard to have the elbow connect automatically to the pipe you just drew. Drag down and click (for the corner). Drag to the right and click (for the elbow direction).

Placing a 3D elbow

Modeling in the horizontal plane

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Draw a 1800mm piece of pipe from the elbow toward the upper right direction.

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Now youll turn draw another elbow turning up in the vertical plane.

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Click on the UCS Next button on the UCS tool bar.

44. Your cross hairs should look as shown. If not, keep clicking the UCS Next button to get them set.

Rotating the UCS easily into the vertical right hand plane

Do you see how this is going to let you draw in the vertical plane? You can see how the X Y Plane is oriented in the vertical right hand plane (its on edge going up and down, instead of flat like you normally see it). When you draw with the UCS tilted like this, your components will be drawn in the vertical XY Plane. Now youll draw some components in vertical. 45. 46. 47. 48. Click Elbow Press <Enter> on the keyboard, to have the elbow connect automatically to the last piece of pipe. Drag the mouse toward the upper right direction and click. Drag the mouse straight up and click. Youve just drawn an elbow going up.

Modeling in 3D has a similar look and feel to creating Isometric drawings

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Click Pipe and press <Enter> on the keyboard. Drag the mouse straight up and Type: 1800mm <Enter>.

Showing how 3D is similar in approach to producing a 2D isometric

Do you see how this is just like drawing a 2D isometric, but its really in 3D? Modeling in CADWorx Plant Pro can get really fast and easy, once you get used to it. 51. 52. Click the UCS Next tool button on the UCS tool bar. Set it as shown.

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Click Elbow Press <Enter> Drag up for the corner and click. Drag to the lower right and click.

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Click Pipe Press <Enter> on the keyboard to connect automatically to the last elbow. Drag to the lower right and Type: 2500 <Enter>.

Illustrating how to model in 3D

Now lets say you wanted to draw a valve with flanges in the second horizontal line, where it touches the elbow thats turned up. Youll draw a gate valve and flanges here.

First you need to get your crosshairs (UCS) reset. 61. Click the UCS Next tool button.

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Click the Weld Neck Flange on the tool palette.

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Click on the end of the elbow thats turning up. Drag toward the lower left area of the drawing and click.

Inserting components into a line and having the system break out the line as they are inserted

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Click the Gate Valve on the tool palette.

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Press <Enter> on the keyboard to connect it to the flange automatically. Drag the mouse toward the lower left area of the screen and click. Click on the Weld Neck Flange in the tool palette. Press <Enter> on the keyboard, to connect it automatically to the valve. Drag to the lower left area of the screen (using Polar or Ortho) and click.

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So you can see that modeling in 3D in CADWorx is a matter of setting your crosshairs (UCS) in the plane you want to work, then simply placing components. Theres also a great tool which youll do soon called a ROUTER LINE, which together with the method you just practiced, will have you creating 3D CADWorx models very fast and efficiently. 71. Erase the lines you just drew. It was just to illustrate how to model in 3D. Zoom back into the area near the top of the exchangers. Now youll model lines coming out of the top of the far exchanger.

Getting set for modeling

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Set the Main Size to 12. The spec should be set to 150_M. Click the Line Number setup button in the top area of the CADWorx tool palette.

74. You need to set the line number to include Size, Service, Count, Spec, and Insulate. You can see the video or lesson one if you need to review how to set this up. 75. Your line number will look as shown. You will use CPRB for the Service, and 1004 for the count. The Insulate value will be nothing, since we dont want to show insulation for this line.

Setting up the line number

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Click the UCS Next button as needed to orient your crosshairs in the vertical left hand plane. Note: The Z direction is not important here unless you want to place some text in 3D in the model. The X and Y are whats important to us here. Rotating the UCS (User Coordinate System)

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Click Gasket from the CADWorx tool palette.

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Place a gasket on the top of a nozzle (use OSNAP CENTER), and drag the mouse toward the top of the screen and click.

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Click Flange, RFWN from the CADWorx tool palette. Press <Enter> on the keyboard to connect automatically, drag the mouse up toward the top of the screen, and click. Click Pipe. Press <Enter> on the keyboard. Drag the mouse up, and Type: 1027 <Enter>. Click Elbow and press <Enter> on the keyboard.

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85. Drag the mouse up and click. 86. Drag the mouse toward the upper left area of the screen and click.

Placing components in 3D

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Repeat the steps you just did on the other nozzle. Have the elbow at the top pointing toward the first elbow.

Copying components in 3D

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Draw a piece of pipe connecting the two elbows. Then click on the Tee, in the CADWorx tool palette.

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Right click on the mouse and click Center. Pause on the end of the elbow, on the right side (dont click). Track down the pipe (drag the mouse down the pipe and you will see the system tracking), and type: 1738 <Enter>. Click down the pipe for the Main Run direction. Click Straight Up for the Branch direction. Press <Enter> to accept the 1738mm distance from the end of the pipe. Your drawing should appear similar to whats shown.

Modeling 3D components

Inserting a Tee into the middle of a 3D pipe

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Save the drawing at this point. Now youll need to rotate your UCS (your crosshairs) to model in vertical, and also in the right hand plane. Click the UCS Next button to rotate them as shown.

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Zoom into the area around the two nozzles on the side of the vessel. 100. Place a Gasket, Flange, and Elbow as shown.

Modeling in vertical

The following figure shows what you will be constructing. Youll soon be modeling a line that comes up out of the Tee, and connects into the bottom of the Elbow.

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The bottom of this new line will be at an elevation of 7000.

Evaluating the setup

Youll need to determine how far it is from the center of the Tee to the end of the Elbow on the vessel (you can just follow the steps in the video). First, youll determine the distance from the Tee to the Elbow. Again, watch the video and this will be easy to follow. The video shows the following steps. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. Click Tools Click Inquiry Click Distance Click the Endpoint or Center of the Tee. Click the Endpoint or Center of the bottom of the Elbow. Note the distance between them (see video) its 4845mm. Youll key in this distance shortly when you run a router line between them. Now youre ready to construct the Router Line.

Inquiring about a needed distance

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107. Type: RT <Enter> to start the Router Line command. If it doesnt work on your system, you can always click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Router.

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Click the Endpoint of the top of the Tee. Right click and click Position. Right click and click BOP. Press <Enter> (if prompted for size: 12). Right click and click Elevation. Right click and click World. Type: 7000 <Enter>. Drag the mouse toward the vessel (with Ortho on). Type: 4845 <Enter>. Click the Endpoint of the Elbow. Right click and click Current. Press <Enter> to exit. You should have a figure similar to the following.

Using the 3D Router command

Routing a line in 3D space, connecting to components as needed

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To add piping to the line,

Having the system automatically connect pipe and elbows along the routed line

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Click Plant Click Accessory Click Auto Route Click Buttweld LR Press <Enter> to select Polyline, and Click the router line you just drew. The system will place pipe and elbows for you along the router line.

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126. Save the drawing at this point. 127. Zoom into the area around the elbow thats above the Tee.

Checking the UCS

128. Make sure your UCS (your crosshairs) set to work in vertical, and place a Flange, Gate Valve, and Flange.

Placing the flanges and gate valve in vertical, and breaking out the existing pipe

Note: The valve top works will be changed shortly to standard measurements. The next video discusses this.

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129. Click the UCS Next tool button to rotate your crosshairs. They will be oriented like a vertical left orientation, if you were doing an isometric. Again, modeling in CADWorx is very similar. 130. If you are running 2008 and earlier, and you dont have the Operators tool bar open, Click Plant, Tool bars, Operators (skip this step if youre using CADWorx 2009).

Rotating the UCS

131. Add a hand wheel for the valve as shown. It will be 450 in diameter, and 1500 long. 132. Click Save, to save the drawing. 133. Click View, Visual Styles, Conceptual to look at your work.

Placing a valve operator manually (2008 and earlier versions)

Shading, and saving the file

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The next line will also be drawn using a Router command. Using the Router, youll route the centerline of the piping, and let the system fill in the elbows and piping for you. Also, when using the Router, there are many options you can use to adjust the centerline as you go. Youll actually explore all the Router command options in the lesson that follows this one. For now, just put in the values as given in the following section. It will be another good introduction to the command, so you will get more familiar with how it works. 134. Click View, Visual Styles, 2D Wireframe. 135. Click the Line Number Setup button.

Setting up the new line number

136. Change the Service to CPRA. 137. Zoom in around the nozzles on top of the nearest exchanger. 138. Rotate the crosshairs (UCS) as shown.

139. Place a Gasket and RFWN Flange on each nozzle.

Rotating the UCS as needed

Placing some gaskets and flanges

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Now youll start the Router Line Command. 140. Type RT <Enter>. This starts the Router. IF IT DOESNT START, click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Router. This will also start the command. Note: When you start the Router command, the system will rotate the UCS back to the World Coordinate System automatically. This is normal. 141. Using OSNAP CENTER, Click on the top of the flange on the right. 142. Right click on the mouse and click Position. 143. Right click on the mouse and click BOP (for Bottom of Pipe). 144. If the system echoes back 12, press <Enter> to accept. If it doesnt echo back 12 go on to the next step.

Using the Router command to route the 3D line

145. Right click on the mouse and click Elevation. 146. Right click on the mouse and click World. 147. Type: 4800 <Enter>. This sets the bottom of pipe elevation you will be drawing to 4800. 148. Zoom in close around the other flange.

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149. Using OSNAP, click the CENTER (at the top) of the flange. 150. Press <Enter> on the keyboard for Last 151. Click on the same ENDPOINT of the flange. 152. Right click on the mouse and click Current. 153. Press <Enter> to exit the Router command. This just routed a line for your piping. Next youll tell the system to automatically place pipe and elbows. 154. 155. 156. 157. Save the drawing. Click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Buttweld LR. Press <Enter>. Click on the polyline router line you just drew.

Having the system automatically run pipe and elbows along the routed line

Placing the Tee in the middle of the 3D pipe

The system will place the elbows and pipe automatically. Now youll place a Tee in the line, then continue routing it using the Router command. 158. Verify your UCS (crosshairs) is as shown. If not, rotate them as needed. 159. Verify the Otrack, Osnap, and Ortho buttons are pushed in. 160. Click Tee

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161. Right click and click Center.

162. Move the crosshairs over the end of the pipe on the left (where the pipe and elbow joint). 163. Dont Click, just hover directly over that point. 164. Drag the mouse toward the lower right (you should see it tracking), and 165. Type: 1738 <Enter>. 166. Drag the mouse toward the lower right and click (for Main direction). 167. Drag the mouse straight up toward the top of the drawing and click (for the Branch direction). 168. Press <Enter> on the keyboard to accept the distance the system prompts (its verifying you want to place the center of the tee at a distance of 1738).

Having the system break out the pipe and place the tee

The tee will appear in your drawing, in the correct position. 169. Save the drawing at this point. Now youll continue with the line. 170. Zoom in around the flange on the vertical tower where this line is going. Its the flange right next to the previous line you finished.

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171. Rotate your crosshairs (rotate the UCS) as shown.

172. Place a gasket (using OSNAP Center), WNRF Flange, and Elbow (turning down) as shown.

Placing the gasket, flange, and elbow

Now you can finish the line using a Router. Zoom back so you can see both ends of the line (the elbow you just placed, and also the tee). Now youll use a Router Line to finish the line. Routers let you lay out the path you would like the line to follow. Youll see more of how this works as you proceed. 173. Type: RT <Enter> (to start the Router Command). If RT doesnt work, or if you prefer, you can also click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route. This does the same thing. 174. Click the top end point of the Tee you just placed. 175. Right click and click Position. 176. Right click and click BOP. 177. If the system echoes back 12, press <Enter>. If it doesnt echo back 12 go on to the next step. 178. Right click and Click Elevation. 179. Press <Enter> for World. 180. Type: 7000 <Enter> (this will be the elevation of the bottom of the pipe.) Generating another 3D routed line

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181. Drag the mouse to the right and 182. Click on the bottom of the elbow, coming down off the nozzle above. 183. Right click and click Last 184. Click on the bottom of the elbow, coming down off the nozzle above again. 185. Right click and click Current. 186. Press <Enter> to exit.

Having the system generate pipe and elbows along the routed line

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Click Plant Click Accessory Click Auto Route Click Buttweld LR Press <Enter> (to select the polyline) Click the polyline you just routed.

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Next youll set the gate valves to use a standard top works file for the valve operators, and adjust the existing gate valves top works. 193. Type: Topworksadd <Enter> 194. Following the video, change the gate valves top works (operator) to a standard size. 195. After youve completed that, Click the Spec Editor button on the CADWorx SpecView tool palette (see illustration). If instead, youre running CADWorx 2008 and earlier, youll need to: 196. Type: SPED <Enter> to start the Spec Editor.

Starting the Spec Editor

197. Select the 150_M Spec. 198. Click on Valves, Gate in the left section of the dialog box. 199. Highlight the 2-24 inch, 150 LB Flg and click the Edit button. Editing the Gate Valves in the specification

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200. In the Top Works section of the dialog box, click the Select Button.

Selecting the proper Top Works measurement file.

201. Click on the Wheel_Gate_150_F_M.top data file, and

Now the system will draw valve operators to standard measurements

202. Click Select, OK, and OK to exit. This will set the system up to draw the valve operators (Top Works) to standard dimensions.

Now the system will draw [Link] of this.

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203. Adjust the crosshairs (UCS) as needed (click the UCS Next button) and 204. Place the Flanges, Gate Valve, and Valve Operator in this line, like you did in the previous line. 205. Click View 206. Click Visual Styles 207. Click Conceptual 208. Save your work.

Viewing the model

Saving the file

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Running Continuity Checks and Generating Isometrics 209. Click View 210. Click Visual Styles. 211. Click 2D Wireframe. You can Isolate a line (view only that line) a couple of ways. One way (demoed in the video dont do at this time) is to 212. 213. 214. 215. 216. 217. 218. 219. Click Plant Click Utility Click Line Isolate Right click and click Isolate Right click and click Line Number Right click and click List Click on the line with the service of CPRA and Click OK, and the line will be shown alone on the screen.

Isolating the line

The way youll isolate the line is using the Lineview tool palette.

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220. Type: LINEVIEW <Enter> The Line View tool palette will appear.

221. Click on the line with the service of CPRA and 222. Click OK, and the line will be shown alone on the screen.

Isolating the line

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Click Plant Click Utility Click Continuity Window the line and press <Enter>

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227. Type: 1000 <Enter> (for the marker diameter). 228. Press <Enter> (for the precision). 229. You should see three circles, one on each end of the piping.

Viewing the continuity checking results

If you have more than three circles, that indicates that you have bad connectivity between your components. You may have a gap, or an overlapping of components, or a gasket placed improperly. If so, you should zoom in closely to the trouble area and correct it. The first lesson has a good section on what to look for with continuity errors. 230. Erase the circles. Running an Isogen Isometric 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237. Click Plant Click Accessory Click Isogen Click Isogen Out Choose the Metric_Inch_A2 Style and Click OK Press <Enter> (to select objects). Generating an Isogen isometric drawing

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238. Window the line and press <Enter>. 239. When the Isogen Results dialog box appears, 240. Click Open Plot Files

You should see a result similar to the following figure.

Modeling the supply line

Inserting the reference files (Xrefs)

241. Save the drawing in the Lessons folder. 242. Plot the drawing for your portfolio. Run isometrics of the other line and save it. If you have any errors, correct them before proceeding. Now youll model the supply line. For clarity and ease, youll model it in its own file.

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243. Start a new drawing, using a TEMPLATE (remember you always use a template in this system). 244. Click Insert (from the pull down menus at the top) 245. Click External References (second from the bottom in the pull down list). 246. Click Attach 247. Browse to your C:\CADWorx VideoTraining\Examples folder and click on the 248. 35-450 drawing and the Exchangers_Pair drawing (hold down the Control Key as you select them.

Viewing from a 3D viewpoint

249. Insert them in as Overlays and inserted at the 0,0,0 point, Scaled 1:1, and Rotated 0 as shown. 250. You should have them in your attached drawings list as shown. 251. Close the XRef dialog box (click the X at the top).

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252. You will see your two XRefs now appearing on the drawing.

253. Click on the South West Isometric View from the View toolbar (it should already be docked in the top area of your screen).

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254. Zoom into the lower left area of the drawing.

In this section of the lesson, you will be modeling the supply line that flows from the nozzle in the bottom area of the vessel into the bottom of the exchangers. This product is then heated up in the exchangers and piped out the top of the exchangers and back into the top of the vertical vessel. 255. 256. 257. 258. Set your size to 16 for the Main size. Set the specification to 150_M. Click the Line Number Setup button. Set the line number as shown. It will be set to 16-CPS1050-150_M-2H. 259. Save the drawing as 16-CPS-1050-150_M-2H.

Setting up the Line Number

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260. Rotate the crosshair (UCS) as shown (click the UCS Next tool button on the CADWorx Plant UCS tool bar).

Rotating the UCS

261. Place a gasket, flange, and elbow on the nozzle coming out of the bottom of the exchanger as shown.

Modeling components

262. Place a 300 long piece of pipe, a flange, gate valve, flange, and elbow as shown. Note: If youre in CADWorx 2009 you will have also placed a valve operator as shown in the video at 135 degrees.

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263. Click the SE Isometric tool button on the View tool bar.

264. Repeat the previous steps on the lower nozzle on the other exchanger. Add a gasket, flange, elbow, 300mm piece of pipe.

Changing the viewing direction

265. Then add a flange, gate valve, flange, and elbow. 266. Save the drawing at this point as 16-CPS-1050-1502H.

Continuing to model components in 3D

267. Click the SW Isometric tool button from the View tool bar. Next youll draw a router line and automate some pipes and an elbow.

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268. Type: RT <Enter> 269. Click the end point on the elbow. 270. Right click and click Position. 271. Right click and click BOP. 272. If the systems prompts 16, press <Enter>. If not, go on to the next step. 273. Right click and click Elevation. 274. Right click and click World (to set the BOP elevation to a world value). 275. Type: 3650 Enter>. 276. Drag the mouse to the right and click on the center of the nozzle on the vertical vessel.

Running a routing line

Having the system generate pipe and elbows automatically along the routed centerline

277. Click Plant, Accessory, Auto Route, Buttweld LR. 278. Press <Enter>, and 279. Click on the router line you just drew. The system will place pipe and an elbow for you.

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Draw a line from the end of the elbow (the elbow with nothing connected to it), perpendicular to the pipe above it.

280. Rotate the UCS (crosshairs) as shown. Rotating the UCS

281. Pick Tee (from the tool palette). 282. Right click and click Center. 283. Click the point where the line you just drew meets the centerline of the pipe. 284. Click along the pipe (for the run direction). Have Ortho on, and dont Osnap off the centerline. 285. Click the lower endpoint of the line (where it meets the elbow) for the branch direction. 286. When prompted for the round off, press <Enter>. The tee should appear on your model as shown.

Inserting a Tee

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287.

Erase the construction line and draw a piece of pipe between the elbow and the tee. 288. In a later video, youll add a couple of connection Flanges, RFWN, next to the Tee, but for now leave them off.

289. Place a Gasket and a Flange (RFWN) on the end of the pipe where it joins the nozzle on the vessel. 290. Save your drawing at this point. Creating some Orthographic Views 291. Go to UCS World. (Type: UCS <Enter> <Enter>). 292. Click Insert, External References. 293. From the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Lessons folder: 294. Click Attach. 295. Click on the drawing named 12-CPRA_B-1004150_M, and click OK. 296. Click Attach again. 297. From the C:\CADWorx_Video_Training\Examples folder: 298. Click on the drawings named the drawing Skid2 299. Click OK. 300. Click on the Plan View (from the View tool bar). Attaching in the other lines

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Viewing from the top

301. 302.

Zoom in around the area of the skid and the vertical vessel. Save the drawing at this point.

Generating some Clipping Planes 303. 304. 305. 306. Click Plant Click Utility Click View Click Box

Youll see the View Creation dialog box.

Setting up some clipped views

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307. Click the Specify On-Screen button (where it says First Corner). 308. Click a point in your drawing as shown in the figure which follows. 309. Click the Specify On-Screen button (where it says Second Corner). 310. Click a point in your drawing for the second point as shown in the figure which follows.

Using the View Box command to generate some clipped views

Change the View Set Name to Skid_2. 311. Change the Z Value in the dialog box for the Second Corner to be 15000 312. The X,Y locations will not match whats shown, but will be fairly close.

Filling out the View Box dialog box

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313. Set the View Type to Front. 314. Click the Add button. See the video for a good look at how this gets set up. 315. Click OK. The system will create a clipped front view. Bringing the Clipped View into Paper Space 316. 317. 318. 319. 320. 321. 322. 323. 324. Click Plant Click Setup Click Border Click Predefined Click the ISO A0 (1189 x 841MM) border. Click the Paper Space check box. Click OK (to exit the Border dialog box). Click OK (to exit the Setup dialog box). Click OK as needed (twice) to exit the Attributes Dialog box for the border (you can also fill out some attribute information if you would like to do so, before OKing out). You will now have your drawing border inserted into Paper Space. Viewing the layout

Setting up a border

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Setting up some Views in Paper Space When using AutoCAD 2009, you can set up View Ports easily using the View tab of the 3D Work Space.

The other option, that works for all versions of AutoCAD is as follows. 325. Set your layer to Viewl (no matter which version of AutoCAD you are using). 326. Open the Viewports tool bar (see instructions which follow). 327. Move the pointer over any AutoCAD tool button and Right Click on the mouse.

Setting the layer for a viewport

Creating a viewport (options vary depending upon the AutoCAD version used)

328. Click on Viewports.

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329. Dock the Viewports tool bar at the top of the screen (do not dock it on the side of the screen). 330. Click the Single Viewport tool button (the second button on the Viewports toolbar). 331. Click two points to make a viewport on the screen, similar to whats shown. Setting the layer for a viewport

Creating a viewport

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332. Double click the mouse inside the viewport area. 333. This takes you into Model Space. Youll see your crosshairs are active within the viewport. 334. Pan the drawing to the middle of the viewport. 335. Click the arrow on the side of the Viewports toolbar, and 336. Set the Scale to 1:50.

If you are using AutoCAD 2009 you can easily set the viewport scaling directly off the bottom area of the screen.

Scaling the view in the viewport

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337. Double click the mouse outside the viewport area. This returns you to Paper Space. 338. Cross through the edge of the viewport with the mouse, which will light up the Grips on the viewport. 339. Right click, and click Display Locked, Yes.

Locking the viewport, to keeps its scale always set

This locks the viewport and the zoom (scaling) stays locked. You can unlock it later if you want to, but this keeps the scaling fixed.

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Creating a Second Viewport 340. Click on the Single Viewport button again, and create a second viewport as shown.

Creating a second viewport

341. Double click the mouse inside the border of the second viewport (this makes it current and enters Model Space). 342. Click on the arrow on the View tool bar, and 343. Click on the View named Skid_2-Front.

Bringing the clipped view into the viewport

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344. Pan the drawing to the middle of the viewport, and 345. Click the down arrow on the Viewports toolbar and 346. Set the Scale (zooming) to 1:50.

Scaling the clipped view

347. 348. 349. 350.

Pan the drawing as shown and Double click outside the viewport to return to Paper Space. Cross through the viewport to light up the Grips, Right click and lock the viewport as you did previously (Display Locked, Yes). 351. Set your current layer to Text (or any other layer except layer Viewl). 352. Turn off layer Viewl and the layer Dim2. 353. Save the drawing at this point.

Locking the viewport

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Adding Annotation to the Drawing in Paper Space Live Views or Flattened Views? In this lesson you will annotate the orthographic views in Paper Space. This is the recommended method for producing drawings from a model. There are two options you can choose from when you create your drawings in a Layout (in Paper Space). One option is to have viewports with views of the model in them, as you have just created. These are live views, because if you change the model, your views will update. Also you will see how to dimension them so that the dimensions update as well, if the model changes.

Viewing the results to this point

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The other option is to flatten the views. This is the option you would choose if the client only wants flat 2D drawings as their deliverable. You will see how this option works in a later section of this chapter. 354. 355. 356. 357. 358. Zoom into the area around the top view. Make layer CL the current layer. Type: LTScale <Enter>. Type: 10 <Enter>. Draw some centerlines as shown. Use OSNAP Center, Quadrant, Midpoint, etc. as needed.

Drawing some centerlines that will be used in annotation

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Zoom into the area around the vertical tower, 34-450 in the plan view.

359. 360. 361. 362.

Click Plant Click Text Click Iso Text Click 0 Deg Text

Annotating the drawing

363. 364. 365. 366. 367. 368.

Click a point to start the text. Type: 3 <Enter> (for the text height). Press <Enter> (for 0 degrees rotation). Type: C EQUIPMENT <Enter>. Press the spacebar three times and Type: N.0+01-0 <Enter> <Enter>.

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Labeling the centerline annotation

369. Set layer Text as the current layer. 370. Type: L <Enter> (to start the line command). 371. Draw a small L shaped line as shown to indicate a centerline symbol.

372. Label the other centerlines with text as shown.

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Annotating the center lines

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373. Using the videos as a guide, label the elevations as shown in the following figure.

Labeling the elevations

Setting the dimensioning variable for associated dimensions in paper space

Adding Dimensions in Paper Space You can use Associative Dimensions in Paper Space easily. These dimensions will all have the same height and give the proper distances, no matter what scale or zoom factor youve set the viewport for. 374. Type: Dimassoc <Enter>. 375. Type: 2 <Enter>. This sets the Dimension Associate system variable to 2. AutoCAD will know to dimension distances properly in Paper Space with this setting. You must use OSNAP on Model Objects (objects within the viewports in Model Space) for this to work properly.

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376. Using the video as a guide, add the dimensions and labels as shown.

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You can also make a 2D Representation of a 3D view. This allows you to flatten a 3D view into a 2D view. Sometimes clients only want to receive 2D deliverables. Experiment with this command, following the prompts if you need to utilize this feature.

Congratulations! This completes this section. You are well on your way to learning the many modeling and drawing production features in CADWorx Plant Professional!

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