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About Displaying Thick Pipes and Thick Insulation
Thick pipe display mode displays pipe centerlines as 3D shapes without creating a solid pipe. A thick pipe is a lightweight representation of a solid pipe. A thick pipe actually uses less memory and creates a more efficient piping assembly for faster regeneration. Thick pipes are visible in all global display methods (Wireframe, Hidden Line, No Hidden, and Shading) and in Drawing mode. Thick pipes are independent of solid pipes and do not have solid pipe attributes.
Thick pipe display:
Applies to all pipelines in the assembly.
Makes pipe centerlines available for selection.
Updates after every change.
Overlaps with solid pipes.
Is not visually different from solid pipes.
Thick pipes do not have geometric information or data, so keep the following in mind:
Boolean operations do not apply.
A thick pipe does not fail when a solid pipe would.
Pairs clearance analysis performed on a thick pipes does not have the same results as on the solid pipe.
Thick pipe display cannot be turned on or off for an individual pipe.
Thick pipes are not part of the BOM or mass properties calculations.
The figure below shows a pipeline displayed as a centerline:
The following figure shows the same pipeline displayed as a thick pipe:
Thick insulation display is a lightweight representation of insulation that uses less memory. You can only display thick insulation when thick pipes are displayed.