PlantWise Help

Routing Volume Editor

The Routing Volumes editor has a field for selecting an existing volume, or entering the name of a new volume, a Description field, and three group panes, Location, Dimensions, and Levels. The group panes can be collapsed so the dialog can be made smaller.

Routing Volumes editor. Collapse group pane (right).

Tip: If a collapsed pane is expanded in a small dialog the pane might no longer be displayed. If that happens simply increase the size of the dialog until the pane becomes visible.

Missing Group Panes (left), Horizontal Layout (right)

The dialog remembers its location and size when closed. The next time a Routing Volumes Editor dialog is opened it opens in the same location and of the same size as the last instance that was closed.

Menus

Menu Description
File menu Allows you to:
  • Save Model
  • Save Model As
  • Close the dialog.
Edit menu
  • Rename opens the Rename Component dialog.
  • Level Names opens the Pipeway Level Names dialog.
  • Delete allows you to delete the selected routing volume.
Display menu
  • Zoom To causes CAD to prompt you to select a view. When a view is selected, fills the volume that view.

    You can then select other views in CAD and they also be zoomed so the entire routing volume fills the view.

    Note: Some times the Zoom To affects the clipping planes. If the volume does not appear in the view, turning off the front and/or back clipping plane should make the pipeway visible.
  • Highlight changes the drawing level of the selected volume to Highlight (drawn in magenta) so that it can be easily located.
  • UnHighlight returns the volume to its normal drawing level.
  • Display Toggles opens the Display Toggles dialog.
  • Mass Properties opens the Mass Properties dialog containing only the current pipeway.
  • My Groups opens a new Named Groups dialog with only the groups that contain the selected component listed.
  • All Groups opens the PlantWise All Named Groups dialog.
  • Capacity Report opens the report for the selected volume.
  • Capacity Report all Pipeways opens a single report that shows the capacity report for all horizontal routing volumes in the model.