Pipeline Element

The pipeline-element component breaks a pipeline into all of it's parts - spans, elbows, and components - from origin to terminus. With this component, you can gather more information on a pipeline such as the angle of every elbow or the placement of all of the inline components on the pipeline.

Element	Attributes / Relationships	Name	Definition
`pipeline-element`	attributes	actual-angle	For elbows, routed angle; otherwise 0. (Helpful in identifying location of elbow errors.)
		angle	For elbows, 90 or 45 angle; otherwise 0
		center	Coordinates of the center of the element (center-of-pipe)
		center-x	x-ordinate of the center of the element (center-of-pipe)
		center-y	y-ordinate of the center of the element (center-of-pipe)
		center-z	z-ordinate of the center of the element (center-of-pipe)
		commodity	commodity code of the element
		diameter	nominal routed diameter
		display_name	name of the component; for unnamed components the name is the component type followed by its placement (for example, the third reducer in a line is named Reducer-3.)
		end	coordinates for the end of the element (center-of-pipe)
		end-x	x-ordinate of the end of the element (center-of-pipe)
		end-y	y-ordinate of the end of the element (center-of-pipe)
		end-z	z-ordinate of the end of the element (center-of-pipe)
		ending-diameter	downstream diameter of reducer; otherwise, nominal diameter.
		insulation-code	insulation code at the element
		insulation-thickness	insulation thickness at the element
		length	length of the element; leg length of elbow; specification breaks have a length of 0
		line-class	pipe class code for the element

All of the pipeline element types except for user defined inlines.

Element	Attributes / Relationships	Name	Definition
`pipeline-element`	attributes	material	material of element
		position	starting at the origin, the integer sequence position of the element
		start	coordinates of the start of the element (center-of-pipe)
		start-x	x-ordinate of the start of the element (center-of-pipe)
		start-y	y-ordinate of the start of the element (center-of-pipe)
		start-z	z-ordinate of the start of the element (center-of-pipe)
		tag	Display name of the pipeline
		Type	Type of element: span elbow reducer tee flow_element control_valve specification break <user defined inline> (value is class name)
	relationships	pipeline	pipeline of current element