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When you size a lateral line system with the Lateral Size function, pipe size notations are automatically placed off to the side of pipes that are transitions from one size to another, and not on every single pipe length. Thus, the first and last pipe locations, or transitions, where a 1½” pipe is located has that size called out, then 1” pipe is called out on the two transition pipes for its location, and so on.
A few of the pipe labels that are automatically placed into the drawing may conflict with other labels, the piping that is drawn, or some of the background drawing. These are easily moved, deleted, or added to with the pipe label organization functions. These changes to the labels should be done with Land F/X functions for maximum use of the automation of the program.
The Pipe Label Cleanup function allows the End User to move the labels freely, while automatically having the pipe callout “lasso” follow the label wherever it goes. Further, it allows “sliding” any pipe label along the length of a pipe, to allow easily moving it to increase readability of the plan.
Locate an area where the labels need to be moved or added to, for example:
Note that if you click on the arc lasso of the callout, you will then be able to “slide” the entire callout lengthwise along the pipe, for instance to move it away from an arc segment.
When the laterals are sized, the labels Land F/X inserts into the drawing are intentionally kept to a minimum. This is to avoid an excess of labels that will need to be deleted. In some cases, at the Designers discretion, pipes may need labels that were not added when the lateral pipes were sized. This is a quick process with the Pipe Label function.
After selecting the Pipe Label function, the crosshairs will be replaced with a pickbox. Click on the pipe you wish to label, the size will appear with a callout “lasso”. If you need to, move the label as indicated above with the Pipe Label Cleanup function.
When the laterals are sized, there may be labels that, at the Designers discretion, redundantly callout pipe sizes and need to be deleted. The Delete Pipe Label function will remove the label and the callout “lasso” all in one action.
When the Delete Pipe Label function is selected, the command line will indicate:
Select the label to delete, and the callout number and the callout “lasso” will both be deleted.
