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Orthographic Drawings (Orthos)
Topics in this section
- 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 Updating Orthographic Drawings
You can update ortho drawings when there are changes from the original 3D models. - 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