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Alignment & Connection – Cable Trays

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Getting Started The cable trays module inside of EdgeWise allows you to extract cable trays from the point database. This article will cover the different Alignment and Connection portions of the workflow for the Cable Trays module. At this stage in the workflow you should have already used the Semi-Automated… Read more »

Append Mode

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Getting Started This article will cover how to use the Append Mode with EdgeWise piping. There are some circumstances where point cloud data may not be good enough for extraction, or a complicated S-curve may exist in the project. In these scenarios a common workaround is to use the Append… Read more »

“This Tool May Only Be Used To Connect Non-Black Pipes” Error

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Getting Started This article will cover how to fix the “This tool may only be used to connect non-black pipes” error. This error appears when you attempt to use the Connect tool between connections in your model, instead of pipes. This could be an elbow, straight connection, reducer, or tee… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Alignment & Connection – Ducting

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Getting Started The ducting module inside of EdgeWise allows you to extract rectangular ducting from the point database. This article will cover the different Alignment and Connection portions of the workflow. At this stage in the workflow you should have already used the Semi-Automated Extraction and QA tools. Now that… Read more »