Mainline Coming In Too Thick

Issue

When you draw mainline pipe, it's coming in with too thick of a line.

Cause

Excessively thick mainline can have a few possible causes. It may have its origins in your plot style, or you may have assigned a line thickness to the mainline linetype manually.

However, the main source and solution of this issue is the setting for the mainline width in the Pipe Data.

Solution

1. Open our Pipe Data tool and select the Mainline tab.

 

Enter your desired line thickness for the mainline in the Polyline Width text field. Click OK to save your change.

 

Your mainline should now come in at the correct thickness.

The Pipe Data needs to be changed in the Pipe Data dialog box for the active project for you to see the changes. However, you should also make the same changes in the Pipe Data Defaults for the Preference Set(s) you use for irrigation projects, which will ensure that future projects are started with the proper Pipe Data settings.

2. (if necessary) Do some or all of your mainline pipes still have the incorrect thickness? Here's what to do:

Open our Match Properties tool. Click on a mainline pipe that has your desired thickness. Then click on the mainline whose thickness you want to change. That pipe segment will change to the correct thickness. You can then window across the entire plan, and it will update all instances of that pipe type – that is, the mainline you selected as your destination object.