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Piping Coordination Systems Piping Isometrics

Piping Isometric
Unlikeorthographics,pipingisometricsallowthepipetobedrawninamannerbywhichthelength,
widthanddepthareshowninasingleview.Isometricsareusuallydrawnfrominformationfoundona
planandelevationviews.Thesymbolsthatrepresentfittings,Valvesandflangesaremodifiedtoadapt
totheisometricgrid.Usually,pipingisometricsaredrawnonpreprintedpaper,withlinesofequilateral
trianglesformof60.
TheIso,asisometricarecommonlyreferred,isorientedonthegridrelativetothenortharrowfound
onplandrawings.Becauseiso's

are not drawn to scale,dimensionsarerequiredtospecifyexact

lengthsofpipingruns.
Pipelengthsaredeterminedthroughcalculationsusingcoordinatesandelevations.Verticallengthsof
pipearecalculatedusingelevations,whilehorizontallengthsarecaculatedusingnorthsouthandeast
westcoordinates.
Pipingisometricsaregenerallyproducedfromorthographicdrawingsandareimportantpiecesof
informationtoengineers.Inverycomplexorlargepipingsystems,pipingisometricsareessentialto
thedesignandmanufacturingphasesofaproject.
Pipingisometricsareoftenusedbydesignerspriortoastressanalysisandarealsousedbydraftsmen
toproduceshopfabricationspooldrawings.Isometricsarethemostimportantdrawingsforinstallation
contractorsduringthefieldportionoftheproject.

LargeimageofaHandDrawnIsometric

How to read a Piping Isometric?

Apipeintoaisometricview,isalwaysdrawnbyasingleline.Thissinglelineisthecenterlineofthe
pipe,andfromthatline,thedimensionsmeasured.So,notfromtheoutsideofapipeorfitting.
Theimagebelowshowsaorthographicviewofabuttweldedpipewiththreesizes(A,B,C).
TheAsizeismeasuredfromthefronttothecenterlineoftheelbow/pipe.
TheBsizeismeasuredfromcenterlinetocenterline.
TheCsizeisliketheAsize,measuredfromthefronttothecenterlineoftheelbow/pipe.

Orthographic view
(double line presentation)

Isometric view
Theimagehereontherightshowsa
isometricviewofthesamepipeasonthe
left.

Asyoucansee,
thisdrawingis
verysimpleand
quickto
implement.The
redlinesshowthe
pipe,theblack
dotsarethebutt
weldsandA,B&C
arethedimensions
offronttocenterlineandcenterlineto
centerline.
Thesimplicitywithwhichapipeisometric
canbedrawnisonereasontomadeiso's.
Asecondreasontomadeisometricsifa
pipeshouldbedrawninseveralplanes
(northtosouth,thendownandthentothe
west,etc.),orthographicviewsreallynotan
option.Inaorthographicviewitisnota
problemifthepiperunsinoneplane,but
whenapipeintwoorthreeplanestobe
drawn,aorthographicviewcanbeunclear.
Anotherreasonwhyisosarepreferred,is
thenumberofdrawingsthatfor
orthographicviewsshouldbemade.
Forexample:foracomplexpipelinesystem,
15isometricsmustbedrawn.I'venever
tried,butIthinkfororthographicviews
maybe50drawingsareneededtoshowthe
sameastheIso's.

Isometric, Plan and Elevation Presentations of a Piping System

Theimagebelowshowthepresentationusedindrafting.Theisometricviewclearlyshowthepiping
arrangement,buttheplanviewfailstoshowthebypassloopandvalve,andthesupplementary
elevationviewisneeded.

Isometric views in more than one plane

Belowaresomeexamplesofisometricdrawings.Theauxiliarylinesintheshapeofacube,ensure
bettervisualizationofthepipelinerouting.

Thedrawingontheleftshowsapipelinewhichruns
throughthreeplanes.Thepipelinebeginsandends
withaflange.
RoutingstartingpointX
piperunstotheeast
piperunsup
piperunstothenorth
piperunstothewest
piperunsdown

Thedrawingontheleftisalmostidenticaltothedrawingabove.Adifferentperspectiveisshown,and
thepipethatcomesfromaboveislonger.
Becausethispipeinisometricview,runsbehindtheotherpipe,thismustbeindicatedbyabreakin

theline.
RoutingstartingpointX
piperunstothesouth
piperunsup
piperunstothewest
piperunstothenorth
piperunsdown

Thedrawingontheleftshowsapipethatruns
throughthreeplanesandintwoplanesitmakea
bow.
RoutingstartingpointX
piperunstothesouth
piperunsup
piperunsupandtothewest
piperunsup
piperunstothewest
piperunstothenorthwest
piperunstothenorth

Thedrawingontheleftshowsapipethatruns
throughthreeplanes,fromoneplanetoaopposite
plane.
RoutingstartingpointX
piperunstothesouth
piperunsup
piperunsupandtothenorthwest
piperunstothenorth

Hatches on a Isometric Drawing

Hatchesonisometricdrawingsbeingapplied,toindicatethatapiperunsatacertainangleandin
whichdirectionthepiperuns.
Sometimes,smallchangesinthehatch,theroutingofapipeisnolongertheeast,butforexample
suddenlytothenorth.

Thedrawingontheleftshowsapipe,wherethe
hatchindicatesthatthemiddlelegrunstotheeast.
RoutingstartingpointX
piperunsup
piperunsupandtotheeast
piperunsup

Thedrawingontheleftshowsapipe,wherethe
hatchindicatesthatthemiddlelegrunstothenorth.
RoutingstartingpointX
piperunsup
piperunsupandtothenorth
piperunsup

Thetwodrawingsaboveshow,thatchangingfromonlythehatch,apipelinereceivesadifferent
direction.Hatchesareparticularlyimportantinisometricviews.

Thedrawingontheleftshowsapipe,wherethehatchesindicatesthatthemiddlelegrunsupandto
thenorthwest.
RoutingstartingpointX
piperunsup

piperunsupandtothenorthwest
piperunstothenorth

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