You can identify the joints in a section of pipes. I have a sub list of pipe elements and what I need is to authenticate if any union is connected. Is this possible and how can I do it?
For example, I have a list of sublists with pipe elements. The ideas that I can identify if there are connections between the pipe element, is this possible and how could it be?
Hi,
union or pipe connections are essentially fittings so a few ways of doing this.
- Check Pipeupstream components. (heavy operation depending on how many elements you have in your file) .Pipes with joins will return a fitting and those that are not will return empty/null
2.Check Pipe System Name/Abbriviation/Type/Classification. usually when pipes are connected the fittings auto inherit the connecting pipes system Name/Abbriviation/Type/Classification. Those pipes that return a value are those that are connected and those that are null or undefined are not connected.
- Check overall pipe fitting against Pipe System Network. (very heavy operation)
the Pipingsystem all elements in network node gives you both pipes + connections for the whole project. (MEPover). Using this information you can check against the overall fitting in the project. In this example i have 398 fittings but only 394 are part of a ‘connected system’. using indexing you can isolate these.
Hope this helps.
DA
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