Pipe Centrelines

[dakeb1]

Hi, I have an assembly with lots of piping in it. I want to hide the pipe centrelines, but no matter what I try they won't go away. I have tried to set config.pro and config.sup options "pipe_solid_centreline" to No.


I have tried setting Layer rules and hiding the layer.


Nothing seems to work, except putting them in a layer by selecting them one by one, and there are too many of thm to do this.


Any ideas?


Thanks,


Dave
Edited by: dakeb1

 

[wsuslowicz]

In older versions of Pro our Admin had it setup that the pipelines would automatically get added to hidden layer.


Since we've updated to Wildfire and we no longer have an Admin I now do it by selecting them one at a time and hiding them. It doesn't take too long as I do it as I create them orif there is a lot I go down the model tree when I'm done and select/hide. Even on a big model with hunreds of individual pipes it only takes a few minutes at most.


If you find a better way let us know!!!!


Bill

 

[Søren Spætte]

In the drawing, you need to set hlr_for_pipe_solid_cl to
Yes; if you ask your admin it can be done centrally.

We recently changed it centrally here, meaning that
drawings
created before the change needs to have this set
individually.

Another thing: Pipe CL at our site is added to the layer
nogeom_feat where they can be blanked. Just to keep us
alert the geometry for cables is also on this layer, so
you can't just blank all or you'll lose your cabling
geometry...

Third: For drawings if some views have been disconnected
from drawing settings, you need to hide the CLs in those
view individually<edited><editID>S

 

[altendky]

I have tried setting Layer rules and hiding the layer.

I managed to get this working in drawings with Pro/PIPING but it took awhile and is slow. My rule is a search for features by feature type looking for 'solid pipe' (the feature within the part within the assembly). Don't forget to search submodels and make the rule associative. For some as of yet unresolved reason I have to fiddle and recreate the search and other odd things before suddenly the layer will actually bother to contain everything. Then finally hide will work.


Then again, I just tried this in one of my Pro/PIPING parts and got an error saying 'Rules cannot be evaluated for submodels of a Layer model.' Maybe you can only do this in drawings? It would still be a pain, but a mapkey could help you create a search layer in each of your pipes a little quicker.