To Work With Pipe Network Tables

Tutorial Exercise: Creating Pipe and Structure Tables

To create a pipe table

Pipe tables can include data such as pipe shape, size, length, slope, start and end stations, or any pipe property.

1. Click Annotate tabLabels & Tables panelAdd Tables menuPipe NetworkAdd Pipe.
2. In the Pipe Table Creation dialog box, change the generic table settings as needed.
3. Select a network to be included in the table.
4. Click OK.
5. Select the location for the upper-left corner of the table in the drawing.

To create a structure table

Structure tables can include data such as structure type, elevation, sump depth, station, or any structure property.

1. Click Annotate tabLabels & Tables panelAdd Tables menuPipe NetworkAdd Structure.
2. In the Structure Table Creation dialog box, change the generic table settings as needed.
3. Select a structure to be included in the table.
4. Click OK.
5. Select the location for the upper-left corner of the table in the drawing.

To edit a structure table style

You can compose a table cell with more than one text component in order to show connected pipe data for a given structure. The text components display data for each object associated with a parent object (the object you are storing data for). For example, you can use a component in a structure table style to include cell components for pipes associated with that structure.

1. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand StructureTable Styles.
2. Right-click the table style that you want to edit and click Edit.
3. In the Table Style dialog box, modify style settings.
4. To add table cell components, double-click a Structure Table cell in the Data Properties tab of the Table Style dialog box to access the Table Cell Components dialog box.

5. Click the down arrow in , and then click to create a new text component.

   You can add any number of components, and there can be more than one of any given component type. The possible components are: Structure, Structure All Pipes, Structure In Flow Pipes, and Structure Out Flow Pipes.
6. Click Text to access the Text Component Editor dialog box. When this option is selected, the component is added to the list of available components. You can edit the name of the component and/or enter the content for the table cell.
7. Set the cell justification.
8. Click OK.