To Select a Slope Symbol for Pipe Segments
1. Click
and select the drawing to open.
2. Click
Tools >
Piping.
3. Click
Layout >
Edit >
Pipeline Slope. The
Slope Mark dialog box opens.
4. Under Select View, click one of the following to select views from the drawing:
◦ View—Selects a view or multiple views from the drawing. Click
and select a view or multiple views from the drawing using the
SELECT menu.
◦ Sheet—Selects all views from the current sheet.
◦ All Sheets—Selects all views from all sheets.
The names of the selected views are displayed in the selection list.
5. Under Select Symbol, use one of the following methods to select a symbol for displaying the slope of pipe segments in the drawing:
◦ Select a symbol from the adjacent selection list. All symbols in the current drawing are displayed in the list.
You can also type a symbol name in the adjacent field. Before loading the specified symbol, Piping searches the directories in the following order:
◦ The current working directory
◦ The path specified using the search_path configuration option
◦ The symbols directory under the project data directory specified using the piping_project_data_dir configuration option
◦ Click
to browse the directory specified by the
pro_symbol_dir configuration option, and select a symbol.
|  The default symbol for pipe slope,  slope.sym, is located in the $PTCSRC/text/piping_data/sample_project/symbols directory. |
6. Under Select Symbol Parameter, specify the parameters for the selected symbol.
◦ Click Symbol Height to specify the height of the pipe slope symbol on the drawing. Enter a value in the adjacent field. The unit for this value is the active drawing unit.
| If you do not specify the height for the slope symbol, Spec-Driven Piping considers the height to be equal to the outer diameter of the pipe. |
◦ Click Interval between Symbols to specify the distance between two consecutive pipe slope symbols. Enter a value in the adjacent field. The unit for this value is the active drawing unit.
| The default value is 5 mm or its equivalent in the active drawing units. |
7. Click OK to display the pipelines in the selected views in the specified style and close the dialog box.
or
Click Apply to display the pipelines in the selected views in the specified style and keep the dialog box open for further selections.
or
Click Cancel to cancel the action and close the dialog box.