setting piping precut lengths to 1" incerments

[jgronwick]

Is there a way to set the precut lengths to 1" increments in a piping line stock file?

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[StephenW]

I don't remember any options for setting precut lengths.

Are you talking about when you report this information on a drawing? If so, you can simply add the [.0] to the end of the reporting parameter so it rounds to zero decimal places.  Probably not really what you are asking, but thought I would throw it out there anyways.

[jgronwick]

Thanks for the reply.

I am looking for predetermined length increments that piping will take into account when routing the design. Similar to the acceptable bend radii and angle.

[Kevin]

Not sure if these will help but there are parameters for Spec Driven and Non-Spec Driven design that set the minimum and maximum segment lengths.

Non-Spec Parameters:

MIN_STRAIGHT_LENGTH

MAX_OVERALL_LENGTH

Spec Parameters (dialog box):

Max Overall Length

Max Segment Length

Min Segment Length

[jgronwick]

No, but thanks. I'm looking to set line stock in 1" increments.

I think that I will need to set decimals to zero and ceil the pre cut value in the relation of the solid part. I was trying incorporate that in the design of the pipe.

[Kevin]

While it doesn't specifically set the value it does set a rule to check pipeline segments. Setting both values to 1 will flag segments less than 1 and segments greater than 1 as violating the rule but it's still up to the user to change the segment length to the correct value. Based on what I'm seeing you can't set a relation because the value gets locked by Piping.

[jgronwick]

Correct. I will only use this value of a quantity value for documentation.