Triangles

In the Triangles Settings dialog, you can define the following settings. Triangles show the angle of a pipeline when it is not a right angle (90°). Triangles can be hatched with aligned lines, the hatch step (the distance between the lines) can be changed, and the text height can be defined in the Dimensions & Coordinates settings. You can use either triangles or boxes with space angles.

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• Minimum angle of triangle [X/100] – Define a threshold value for handling an angle as a triangle. Angles below this value are shown as a slope mark.

• Hatching of triangles – Select whether triangles should be hatched partly or not at all.

• Hatch spacing [mm] – Specify the distance between hatching lines.

• Use box shapes for angles which are not in normal planes – Select if space angles ("rolling" angles that are not in any of the normal planes) should be indicated with a box instead of two triangles.

Angle markings

• Select how to draw angle markings:

  • Bending angle – Show angle as deviation from the direction of the straight pipe.

    

  • Supplement of bending angle – Show the angle inside the bend.

    

  • Triangle angle – Show the angle of the triangle.

• Use angle arcs – If selected, bending angles and supplement bending angles indicate the angle with a small arc.

• Clear background of text – If selected, angle markings are allowed to clear other text in the background.

• Right angle tolerance – Define a tolerance value (0.5–20) for dimensioning angles that are almost at the right angle (90°). For example, tolerance value 2° means that angle 87° is not to be dimensioned.

• Angle text formats – Define the text format to use in horizontal, vertical, and space angles.