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Adding and removing corners to a pipe line

Adding and removing corners to a pipe line - AutoCAD P&ID Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD P&ID Essential Training: User

Adding and removing corners to a pipe line

- [Instructor] While editing your P&ID, we often have to run pipelines around equipment and other components, and we have to get really creative with our layout to make it all fit. Here's some of the features that will make that a little bit easier for us. We're going to learn how to apply corners to lines. So let's open our drawing 04_08, and take a look up here. If we can't have this line running through this lovely tank, and we're going to move this line around it. At times we can just go like this, but if you have something up there in space and you can't move the line that far, we'll have to make a jog around it. So I'm going to undo that, and I'll show you how to make that little jog. So we're going to right-click the line, go to our Schematic Line Edit tool, and we're going to Apply Corners. So again, read from your command line. Specify a point to add a corner to a line segment, so I'm going to choose this point right here. Specify the second point for the corner segment…

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