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Editing Pipe Networks using the Pipe
Network vistas
The pipe network editing methods you've learned about thus far in this chap-
ter are great for working with individual pipes and structures, but what if you
want to see the entire network or make edits to multiple parts simultaneously?
Luckily, you can do these things with the Pipe Network Vistas command, which
opens Panorama and displays two tabs: Structures and Pipes. Each of these tabs
displays all the pipes or structures in the entire network in a spreadsheet format,
enabling you to view and edit the properties of multiple components at once.
The Pipe Network Vistas button is located near the right end of the Network
Layout Tools toolbar (see Figure 14.15).
FiGuRE 14.15
The Pipe Network Vistas button highlighted on the
Network Layout Tools toolbar
Exercise 14.7: Edit a Pipe Network using the
Pipe Network vistas
In this exercise, you'll use the Pipe Network Vistas to change the names of some
of the structures and change the style of some of the pipes.
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If you haven't already
done so, download
and install the files for
Chapter 14 according to
the instructions in the
Introduction.
1.
Open the drawing named
Editing Pipe Networks Using the Pipe
Network Vistas.dwg
located in the
Chapter 14
class data folder.
2.
Click any storm pipe or structure in the drawing, and then click Edit
Pipe Network on the ribbon.
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3.
On the Network Layout Tools toolbar, click Pipe Network Vistas.
4.
Click the Structures tab. While holding down the Ctrl key, click the
four rows that currently have Rectangular Junction Structure NF
(SI) as the description (see Figure 14.16).
Panorama opens,
displaying the Pipes
and Structures tabs.
5.
Right-click the Description column heading, and select Edit.
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6.
Type
INLET
, and press Enter.
7.
In the Description column, change any instances of Cylindrical
Junction Structure NF (SI) to
MANHOLE
.
All four Description
values change to INLET.
8.
Change the description for the last structure to
ENDWALL
.
