Orthographic Drawings (Orthos)

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About Orthographic Drawings (Orthos)
To Create a New Orthographic Drawing
To Create an Orthographic View
You can create an orthographic view and place it in a drawing.
To Create an Adjacent Orthographic View
To Change the Color of a Component in an Orthographic View
You can make individual object color changes to an ortho drawing.
To Locate the 3D Counterpart of an Orthographic Object
To Add Dimensions to an Orthographic Drawing
You can add dimensions in the orthographic viewports as you can in any AutoCAD drawing.
To Show or Hide Matchlines on a Plan View
You can toggle the display of matchlines on or off in a plan view. Matchlines are on by default.
To Work With Orthographic Views
To Work With Annotations in Orthographic Drawings
To Work With Pipe Gaps
You can create a pipe gap to see the details hidden by a pipe in an orthographic drawing.
Commands for Orthographic Drawings
About OrthoCubes
To Work With OrthoCubes
To Create an Irregular-Shaped (Jogged) OrthoCube
You can add one or more jogs to an OrthoCube to reflect irregular-shaped areas in your plant.
About Ortho Bill of Material (BOM)
You can add the Bill of Materials (BOM) for piping, equipment, steel, as well as nozzle and spool lists into ortho drawings.
To Work with Ortho BOMs
To Add Line Number Column to an Ortho BOM
You can add columns such as line number or COG to the ortho BOM table in an ortho drawing.
To Create an Ortho BOM Annotation (Project Setup)
If you do not have an Ortho Bill of Material (BOM) annotation defined for your project you can add one in Project Setup.
Commands for Ortho BOM
These commands are used to work with ortho BOMs.
About Ortho Insulation
You can show the insulation lines in an orthographic drawing or add an insulation annotation to an orthographic drawing.
To Show Insulation Lines in an Orthographic Drawing
To Turn Off Insulation Lines in an Orthographic Drawing
To Add an Insulation Annotation to an Orthographic Drawing
To Move an Insulation Annotation in an Orthographic Drawing
To Resize an Insulation Annotation in an Orthographic Drawing
About Ortho Location Offset
You can offset the objects to a different location in an orthographic drawing.
To Rotate Objects in an Orthographic Drawing
You can specify offset rotation values in the Project Setup to rotate the objects automatically in newly created ortho views.
To Offset Objects in an Orthographic Drawing
You can specify offset location (X, Y, Z) values in the Project Setup to offset objects to a distance automatically in newly created ortho views.
To Rotate Objects in an Orthographic View
You can specify the offset rotation values of an existing ortho view.
To Offset Objects in an Orthographic View
You can specify the offset distance values of an existing ortho view.
About Ortho Single-Line Piping
You can now display piping in a single-line representation in orthographic drawings according to different criteria.
To Show All Pipelines as Single Line in an Orthographic Drawing
To Show Pipelines as Single Line Based on Line Number in an Orthographic Drawing
To Show Pipelines as Single Line Based on Size in an Orthographic Drawing
To Show Pipelines with Specific Property as Single Line in an Orthographic Drawing
To Show Selected Pipelines as Single Line in an Orthographic Drawing
To Show Single-Line Pipelines as Double Lines in an Orthographic Drawing