Pipework
Wrap-round templates for branches, mitres and bends, printed full size to cut by.
Templates for cutting and fitting pipe: wrap-round templates for branches, mitres and bends, and flange gaskets.
What you can design
9 parametric designs come in the library's Pipework folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Pipework, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Hole Pattern
Holes on a bolt circle (PCD), in a row or in a grid, measured from an edge.
On the toolbar's Holes button
Gasket Ring
A flat gasket: typed sizes, or an EN 1092-1 or ASME B16.5 flange size.
Pipe Saddle
The wrap-round cutting template of a branch pipe meeting a main pipe.
Part Mark
Numbered part marks, to etch rather than cut.
Mitre Segment
The wrap-round template of a segment of a mitred or lobster-back bend.
On the toolbar's Segmented Bend button
Reducer
A concentric or eccentric reducer developed flat.
Weld Preparation
The bevel line and a label marked on an edge to be bevelled for a butt weld.
Weld Number
Numbers each weld on the drawing, shop or field, with its type, size and WPS, for the weld map report.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Pipework drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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Emulator: CNC (G-code)
G-code
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Plasma nesting software (DXF)
DXF and DWG
Plasma / oxy-fuel tables through ProNest, SigmaNEST, FastCAM, Lantek or the table's own CAM
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Plasma table (G-code, arc lead-ins)
G-code
Plasma tables with a G-code control run directly (Hypertherm EDGE Connect, Mach / LinuxCNC / FireControl and similar)
Reports
File › Reports… works these out from the drawing, to save as a web page or as CSV:
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Weld map
The welds numbered with the Weld Number tool, in order.
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
Other trades
Get ParametrIQ CAD
Included in every plan. Install it, activate it, and start with File › New or File › Run Parametric…