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Reducing Elbow Workaround

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Getting Started This article will cover a workaround for reducing elbows for piping and round ducting within EdgeWise. Reducing Elbows DO NOT transfer over to any deliverable, however, there is a workaround that can be representative of the reducing elbow geometry. Workaround While reducing elbows fail to export out to… Read more »

Valves & Flanges

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Getting Started This article will cover the steps necessary to insert valves and flanges into your project. Ensure you standardize your pipe chains before inserting valves and flanges. After exporting, swap your valves and flanges to the proper catalog item in your deliverable. Custom standards will not export over to… Read more »

Automatic Pipe Extraction

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Getting Started This article will cover the Automatic Pipe Extraction workflow for both structured and unstructured data. The Piping module in EdgeWise offers an algorithm that performs pipe extraction while processing your scan file(s), automating much of the front end of typical pipe modeling workflows. The EdgeWise Piping workflow is… Read more »

Custom Standards – Piping

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Getting Started This article will cover how to create custom standards for your piping models in EdgeWise. For some projects, you may require standards that EdgeWise does not include by default. In this case you will want to add your own custom standards using the Pipe Standard Editor tool within… Read more »

Clean Pipes & Apply Standards

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Getting Started This article will cover the Clean Pipes and Apply Standards portion of the piping workflow. To begin this workflow, ensure you have a point database model, and piping model for your project already created, QA’ed, cleaned and opened. Clean Pipes Clean Pipes does multiple actions behind the scenes…. Read more »

Semi-Automatic Extraction & Connection

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Getting Started This article will cover the Semi-Automated Extraction and Connection portions of the piping workflow. To begin this workflow, ensure you have a point database model, and piping model for your project already created, QA’ed, Cleaned, and opened. The Semi-Automated Extraction and Connection tools are designed to supplement the… Read more »

Easy Connect

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Getting Started This guide will walk you through the Easy Connect portion of the piping workflow. To begin this workflow, ensure you have a point database model, and piping model for your project already created, QA’ed, and opened. Select Easy Connect Only High Confidence Connections: EdgeWise will only connect cylinders… Read more »

Piping QA Process

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Getting Started This article will cover the Piping QA Process. To begin this workflow, ensure you have a point database model, and automatically extracted pipe model for your project already created. The Piping QA Process should always come after the fully automated Process Scans Workflow. Rough QA Why do I… Read more »

Piping Quick Start

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Getting Started The EdgeWise Piping module has the ability to save you a significant amount of time on modeling projects. This article provides a quick start guide for the piping workflow to go from point cloud to a finished pipe model. While this Piping Quick Start guide is a good… Read more »

Export – Piping

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Getting Started This article will cover the different piping export options that EdgeWise offers. Depending on the deliverable software that you are using, the workflow may change slightly. For additional piping export options, navigate to the File Tab, select Export, then Pipes. Revit Click Export to Revit to export a… Read more »