Hatch Marks

The Hatch Marks page lets you define how Hatch Marks, Slope Marks and Flow Marks are displayed.

Accessed by selecting the Annotations > Hatch Marks node in the Settings interface.

There are 2 types of pipes, one is a single pipe and the other is a double pipe as discussed in selecting pipeline mode. This hatching mark is created automatically, if the view plane of 3D view volume in the model clips pipes. For example, if the pipe passes by view plane to the upper view volume from the lower view volume, this mark is created with the same size of the pipe.

Define the properties per the fields described below and Save the changes.

The Close icon closes the Project Settings interface, so make sure your changes are saved. You will be prompted to save them it you haven't already.

The Load Defaults icon in the main Settings interface will return the settings of the options page to their original values.

Hatching Mark Options

Setting

Description

Hatching Mark Symbols

The following bitmap options are available from the Single Mark and Double Mark drop down lists:

Single Mark

Double Mark

Mark Display

Select the type of hatch mark to display from the following options:

Single Mark
Double Mark
Both

Any size Above

When the mark display option is set to both, then any pipe size above the size defined from this drop down list uses a Double Mark hatch.

Minimum circle diameter

Sets the minimum circle diameter for the hatch mark.

Add insulation thickness to circle diameter

Toggles the display of the insulation thickness around the diameter of the circle.

Slope Marks Options

Setting	Description
Label	Properties in this section define the display properties of the Slope Mark label. Color: Click the icon and select a color from Color Table for the label text. Text Type: Select a text type for the label from the drop down list. You can click the "..." option at the bottom of the list to display the Microstation Text Styles dialog allowing you to modify the text styles if desired. Text Height: Enter a text height dimension into the field provided.
Slope Display	Select how to display the slope using either a Fraction (1/200) or Percentage (0.005%).
Tag option by angle	If the slope of pipe line is over the value entered here, Orthographics Manager will write the angle value on the line. For example, If the actual slope if a line is 1/150 and the Tag option by angle value is 200, the tag will be created. However, if the Tag option by angle value was set to 100, then the tag will not be done.

Setting

Description

Label

Properties in this section define the display properties of the Slope Mark label.

Color: Click the icon and select a color from Color Table for the label text.
Text Type: Select a text type for the label from the drop down list. You can click the "..." option at the bottom of the list to display the Microstation Text Styles dialog allowing you to modify the text styles if desired.
Text Height: Enter a text height dimension into the field provided.

Slope Display

Select how to display the slope using either a Fraction (1/200) or Percentage (0.005%).

Tag option by angle

If the slope of pipe line is over the value entered here, Orthographics Manager will write the angle value on the line.

For example, If the actual slope if a line is 1/150 and the Tag option by angle value is 200, the tag will be created.

However, if the Tag option by angle value was set to 100, then the tag will not be done.

Flow Marks Options

Setting	Description
Leader	Properties in this section define the display properties of the Flow Mark leader line. Color: Click the icon and select a color from Color Table for the label text. A and B Dimensions: For the A and B dimension, refer to Flow Mark bitmap image when defining the distance.
Arrow Type	Select an Arrow type from the drop down list. The User Defined option displays the Select User Defined Arrow dialog letting you select an arrow symbol from a cell library.
Mark Display	This defines the method on how the Flow Mark data is extracted and displayed. Select from the following options: Start-End Point PNote