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  1. thalon

    Valves on Isometric Drawings

    The problem was the pipe fitter didn't read it that was and assumed the dimension was face of flange to backside of weldolet. This is despite haveing the complete drawing with fully dimensioned plan and elevation views showing the same dimension as face of flange to center of pipe. and of...
  2. thalon

    Valves on Isometric Drawings

    Does the orientation of a valve on an isometric tell the installer/fabricator which direction the valve handle is to be oriented (horizontal or vertical)? Dimensions on an isometric. Are they ALWAYS taken as center of pipe, unless otherwise noted? Even if the dimension and pipe are in...
  3. thalon

    Max torque on flange gasket

    We use a lot of gaskets from flexitallic. http://www.flexitallic.com/ Any time we have an problem they have been a great help.
  4. thalon

    Has anyone used AutoCAD P&ID

    Shenderson17 - That would be great. I was at AU2007 and attended a couple of class on P&ID. They made it sould easy to replace thier blocks with your own. But it didn't sould easy to assign all the data to and existing P&ID by beaing able to select a pump block and click a button to tell P&ID...
  5. thalon

    question on pipe dimensions

    Are there any valve on the line? Can you get the wall thickness with an ultrasonic test? It could be 6" tubing, or 159mm tubing.
  6. thalon

    Has anyone used AutoCAD P&ID

    How is CadWorx P&ID? Are there substantial benifits over simple AutoCAD drawing of P&ID's with no database involved?
  7. thalon

    Has anyone used AutoCAD P&ID

    Has anyone out there used autoCAD P&ID? What are your experiences/opinions?
  8. thalon

    Using Documents from Previous Company

    Assumption: He does not have permission to have a copy of these drawings. Perhapse before bring this to management you should ask him if he feels the use of these drawings is ethical, or appropiate. Would it be any better if the drawings in question held the came content but bore no company logo?
  9. thalon

    Piping Software that will improve my productivity.

    Glad it helped. So do you do your piping model in 3D with your own blocks? or are you drawing it in 2D or isometric 3D or 2D?
  10. thalon

    Piping Software that will improve my productivity.

    Did the suggestion of the LISP help?
  11. thalon

    Piping Software that will improve my productivity.

    further. I did a quick search on google for "autocad block count" and came across this web site http://www.jefferypsanders.com/autolisp_blocks.html I have not used this LISP, and do not know if it will do exactly what you want, but it sound close to what the "bcount" express tool does.
  12. thalon

    Piping Software that will improve my productivity.

    do you have the express tools? are you using LT?
  13. thalon

    Piping Software that will improve my productivity.

    If it's block your inserting into you drawing for components, and you know there in there only once for any given part, you could use autocad's "bcount" command to count the number of time a block appears.
  14. thalon

    Defalt printer in autocad 2005 ?

    As Tcarpenter1 says, there is a steeing in the options to set a default printer, but It has NEVER worked for me. I created a LISP reactor to verify the printer to be used is my correct one, and if not it will set it to be the correct printer. (AutoCAD really should be able to do this on it own...
  15. thalon

    Piping Software that will improve my productivity.

    CADWorx by Coade is another option. They have several pagkages, and their 3d piping can export to Caesar (also by Coade) for stress analysis. The basic piping package (add-on for autocad) is $4500 USD you can get more info on it at http://www.codecad.com/CADWorx.htm I'm in the process of...
  16. thalon

    Laser Tape Measure

    I use a Leica Disto Lazer Measurer Rangefinder. My boss has measured 600' with it. I've measured several distances of over 100'. We have an atachment, held magnetically, on side that is basically a small telescope, tinted red to make it easy to find the little red dot, enev in bright sunlight...
  17. thalon

    Dimensioning-please help???

    ACAD2008 makes spacing between dimensions easy, however I don't see anything to position the first dimension line relative to anything. However in 2007 you can accomplish this with object snaps and object tracking. Set you snaps to whatever is most convient, and turn on osnaps and otrack. For...
  18. thalon

    AutoCAD Viewport Problem

    have you checked the layer while the questionable viewport is active?
  19. thalon

    Can you batch lisp change plotter names on multiple layer drawings?

    Autocad does have a setting to select a default printer, but for whatever reason it doesn't seen to use it at all. I agree it would be nice if autocad could simply default to the system printer, but I'm not sure how to make that happen. Perhapse my LISP could be modified to read the value of...
  20. thalon

    AutoCad user "Trying" to learn Microstation HELP

    My advice. don't try to equate how it's done in autocad. Although the end result is the prety much the same the route taken is different. I've used both and when I was working in a company which used both I found the biggest complaint from autocad users when using microstation was "it doesn't...

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