About Cutting Pipe Pieces
Use Cut Pipe to split a pipeline into pieces that can be fabricated. Cut Pipe allows you to alter the length of pipelines by splitting a straight segment into shorter raw pipe blanks, or cutting the pipe at a specific location to generate the desired spool.
The piece cutting functionality allows you to perform the following tasks:
• Cut a pipeline at a specified location.
• Cut a straight pipe run at multiple locations by specifying the stock length or using a user-specified length of pipe.
• Specify a cut location by referencing other objects such as an adjacent pipe segment, a hull structure, or a data reference plane.
• Specify a cut location by an offset distance.
• Cut all parallel pipe runs at locations identical to the reference pipe run.
• Cut all pipe segments at locations where pipelines intersect with the block boundary.
• Automatically insert joint fittings at the cut location during piece cutting.
• Assign shop or field weld attributes.
• Generate pipe spool pieces based on cuts.