Project: HiCAD Plant Engineering

Isometry and Pipe Spool Drawing

The functions for the generation and processing of of Isometries and Pipe spool drawings are available in an optionally available, additional module which requires a separate licensing and can only be used in conjunction with the HiCAD Plant Engineering module.

The available isometry and pipe spool drawing functions differ for separate isometry and pipe spool drawings and the isometries/pipe spool drawings in the sheet area of a layout plan:

The isometry and pipe spool drawing functions in the sheet area of a layout plan can be found in the Isometry / Pipe Spool Drawing function group of the Plant Engineering tab.

The functions for separate isometry and pipe spool drawings can be found on the Isometry + Pipe spool drawing tab.

Pipeline isometry

For each pipeline in a 3-D layout plan a so-called Isometry can be generated, which is created as a scale-dependent, special view of the 3-D model.

Example: Selected pipeline with isometry

Pipe spool drawing

In contrast to a pipeline isometry, a so-called pipe spool drawing is generated from the active view of a pipeline. The available elements are:

• Dimensioning
• Part/Length item numbers
• Connection symbols and numbers
• Connection coordinates
• BOM: Part item numbers
• BOM: Length item numbers
• BOM: Connection item numbers

The pipe spool drawing considers the visibility of the individual pipe parts, e.g. for dimensioning or in the BOMs.

Example: (1) Original drawing, (2) Pipe spool drawing

Please note:

• A prerequisite for the symbolic representation of the isometry is that you have inserted the parts of which the pipeline is composed in double representation (solid body + symbols or hollow body + symbols).
• Isometry and pipe spool drawings are assigned a special ID, thus enabling HiCAD to distinguish them from other Plant Engineering drawings, and making the corresponding, required special functions available.

• When isometries are generated, HiCAD automatically detects and resolves intersections of parts.

Example 1 - (1) Behaviour before HiCAD 2015, (2) Behaviour as of HiCAD 2015

Example 2 - (1) Behaviour before HiCAD 2015, (2) Behaviour as of HiCAD 2015

If you do not want to use the new drawing layout of HiCAD 2015, you can switch it off in the Configuration Editor: Select Plant Engineering > Isometry and Pipe spool drawing and deactivate the Avoid intersections by means of pipe shortening checkbox.

Isometry and Pipe Spool Drawing Function for Separate Drawings (Iso) •Isometry and Pipe Spool Drawing Functions for the Layout Plan (PE) • Plant Engineering Functions