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to a piping system. Select two or more pieces of mechanical equipment, and
from the Modify | Mechanical Equipment tab, click Create Systems Piping
(see Figure 11.8a) and then name your piping system (see Figure 11.8b).
Figure 11.8 Creating your piping system
Next, select any piece of equipment assigned to the system and click the
Generate Layout button. You have four options for generating the layout:
Network, Perimeter, Intersections, and Custom. Each one has several
routing solutions from which you can choose, consisting of a main pipe
route (blue) and branches (green):
Network
This solution creates a bounding box around the components
selected for the piping system and then bases several solutions on a
main segment along the centerline of the bounding box with branches
coming from the main segment.
Perimeter
This solution creates a bounding box around the
components selected for the system and proposes several potential
routing solutions. You can specify the Inset value that determines the
offset between the bounding box and the components. Inset is available
only when the Perimeter option is selected.
Intersections
This solution bases the potential routing on a pair of
imaginary, perpendicular lines extending from each connector for the
components in the system. There are potential junctions in the
proposed solutions along the shortest paths, where the lines from the
components intersect.
