Pipeline1972
Mechanical
Hello everyone.
We, here in the design office (piping design, chemical plant), are having a discussion about the use of colors in Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams. Some wants to use a different color, and layer, for each piping line (process, air, cooling water, raw water, nitrogen, steam, etc.. etc..). Others don't like this idea, saying you'll end up with a drawing in lots of different colors, and lots of layers, that colors are good for advertisement and marketing purposes. Adding a thickness to your line, depending on its use, (process primary, secundary, utility, instrumentation) makes more sense. Why use colors? To make it easier to read? Designers and Engineers working with P&ID should be able to read it, right? And besides, in all the documentation I'm reading, there's never a mention about the use of colors. But then again, things were different, in the ages before Autocad...
I would love to hear your opinions!
Thanks,and sorry if i posted this thread in the wrong forum! ;-)
Draftsman - Designer Industrial Piping
We, here in the design office (piping design, chemical plant), are having a discussion about the use of colors in Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams. Some wants to use a different color, and layer, for each piping line (process, air, cooling water, raw water, nitrogen, steam, etc.. etc..). Others don't like this idea, saying you'll end up with a drawing in lots of different colors, and lots of layers, that colors are good for advertisement and marketing purposes. Adding a thickness to your line, depending on its use, (process primary, secundary, utility, instrumentation) makes more sense. Why use colors? To make it easier to read? Designers and Engineers working with P&ID should be able to read it, right? And besides, in all the documentation I'm reading, there's never a mention about the use of colors. But then again, things were different, in the ages before Autocad...
I would love to hear your opinions!
Thanks,and sorry if i posted this thread in the wrong forum! ;-)
Draftsman - Designer Industrial Piping