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Quick Start to Drawing a Piping Spool:See also Similar Material on Video

This section shows how to draw pipe, BW elbows, reducing tees, and a weld neck
flange. It also shows how to toggle a flange image, reposition an item tag, and delete
the last item drawn.

When you first start to draw a piping spool, you are faced with a blank drawing with a
kind of “star” in the middle. The letters around the star are U,N,E,D,S,W, for Up, North,
East, Down, South, and West. Click once wherever you want to start to draw. The star
will move to that location. Then click on one of the direction letters to start drawing in
that direction.

If there is more than one spec, you will be prompted to

choose which spec you want to draw with. Then you will be
prompted for a starting size.

Choose the 10 inch size.

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Let’s start by drawing a 10-inch pipe:

Start the 10 inch pipe with a bevel end.

The next click places the item tag, and the final click ends the pipe:
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Draw a 90° Long Radius Elbow:

Click on the end of the pipe and select

90 Elbow.

You may need to choose LR Elbows if the spec has more than one elbow choice
switched on. Click the right mouse button or press the spacebar as required to rotate
the elbow until it points up. Press ENTER or the left mouse button to accept the
direction and complete the elbow.

Indicate your preferred position for the dimension by clicking near one of the dotted
lines.
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Enter the Dimension

Enter 5’ 6 ¾ inches as shown below. The displayed fitting length is the sum of the 10
inch LR Elbow dimension plus the weld gap for 10 inch size, which for this spec is 1/16
inch.

The overall dimension of 5 ft 6 ¾ inches is displayed, with the pipe cut length shown
underneath in parentheses.
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Draw a Reducing Tee:

Click on the open end of the LR Elbow and select Tee:

Select Red Tee and make the branch size 6 inch:

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Press the right mouse button or the spacebar to change the branch direction:.

Point the branch North as shown. Accept this direction with left click or Enter.
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Place the fitting-to-fitting dimension as shown. The dimension of 1’ 11 9/16 is calculated

for you based on the fitting dimensions plus weld gap, if any.
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Add a Weld Neck Flange to the Branch of the Tee:

Click on the branch of the tee and select WN Flange.

The WN Flange appears. Click the right mouse button or press spacebar to toggle
between alternate images. Press the up or down arrow if you feel the image needs to be
larger or smaller. Then click the left mouse button or press ENTER to complete the
flange.
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Switch to a different fitting image by using Select Mode

If you finish drawing the flange and then decide that it is not using your preferred image,
you can switch the image as follows. First, get into select mode by pressing F11. This is
quicker than selecting Edit, Select Pipe/Fittings. The cursor changes to denote select
mode. Click on the item tag for the flange. The flange and its tag will turn blue. Press
the spacebar to toggle the image as shown below, then press Enter to accept.

Reposition an Item Tag

To reposition tag B, get into tag adjustment mode by pressing F9. The cursor changes
to denote tag adjustment mode. Click on tag B and drag it to a better location. As you
do so, a black circle indicates which item corresponds to the tag and also displays its
description.
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Bill of Materials

Note that the bill of materials is updated automatically as you draw. You may need to
press F4 to make it include the latest item.

Delete the Last Item Drawn

If necessary, press ESC to get back to

drawing mode. Then press Ctrl-X to
delete the flange. Pressing Ctrl-X again
will delete the tee, the elbow, and the
pipe. If you delete the one remaining
item, you will be given the option of
deleting any remaining notes and
dimensions.

Keystrokes Introduced in This Section

F4 Refresh the Drawing

F11 Get into Select mode for pipe and fittings.

Spacebar Toggle fitting images when in select mode. Also used when drawing to
change the direction of an elbow or the branch of a tee.

ENTER Finish the item currently being drawn

F9 Get into Tag drag mode

ESC Get back into drawing mode

Ctrl-X Delete the last item drawn. Can be used repeatedly.

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Other Useful Keystrokes

F12 Press F12, then indicate a rectangular area by clicking its opposite
corners. This selects Notes, Details and Draw-Your-Own details within the
rectangular area. This group can then be repositioned using the numeric
keypad as shown in the graphic. (The arrow keys work too.) You can also
resize the group by holding down the Shift key and pressing the Up or
Down arrow key.

Menu Shortcut Keys

Menu Shortcut Keys can be found on the menus themselves, see example below.
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Navigating Through Drawings

Suppose the current job has ten drawings, and

only the odd-numbered ones are selected in
Fabrication Status as shown.

If Drawing 1 is displayed and you repeatedly

press PgDn, the display will switch to the next
selected drawing, which is drawing 3.
Continuing to press PgDn will display each
selected drawing in order, i.e. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 1, 3,
5 etc.

If Drawing 1 is displayed and you repeatedly

press Ctrl-PgDn, the display will switch to the next drawing which is drawing 2.
Continuing to press PgDn will display each drawing in order, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 1, 2, 3 etc.