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How to Do a Pipe Layout With a Sketchup
Daniel Ketchum
Daniel Ketchum got a BA at East Carolina University and where he also attended graduate school. Later, he taught history and humanities. Ketchum is experienced in 2D and 3D graphic programs, including Photoshop, Poser, Hexagon and primarily writes on these topics. He is a contributor to sites like Renderosity and Animotions. updated: May 05, 2010
SketchUp is a free 3D CAD modeling program offered by Google. It is often used for creating models of houses, buildings and other architectural structures. These models can then be used for business or architectural presentations or exported for sale to graphic artists and animators who use them to create rendered images or videos. In many 3D modeling programs, one of the more difficult tasks is adding any pipes that you need in the building model. Fortunately, Google SketchUp comes with an innovative function that makes this process ridiculously quick and simple.
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- Moderate
Instructions
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- 1 Open Google SketchUp. Select "File" from the menu and click "Open." In the dialog box that pops up, browse to the file you have been working on and open it. (See Resources to download SketchUp.)
- 2 Select the primary model itself in the view. Since you will be placing the pipes inside the building, you need to hide it for the time being. Click on "Windows" and click "Layers." In the dialog box that pops up, click on the "New Layer" icon. Select the new layer. Then turn off the visibility of the other layers.
- 3 Select the "Line" tool from the toolbar. Use it to draw the lines for the pipes. Hold down the middle mouse button to rotate the scene as you work. This lets you turn the line of the pipe along any of the three axises, referencing the plans you are using and the numerical display in the lower-right corner to make sure you are getting them right.
- 4 Select the "Elliptical" tool from the toolbar. Click near one end of the pipe. Draw out the circle until it is the width you want for the pipe.
- 5 Select the "Follow Me" tool from the toolbar. Use it to extend the circle you drew along the length of the pipe. You may have to rotate the view if the tool gets stuck in a corner, but it should easily make all the turns you need. When you are done, switch to the select tool and delete the line you drew inside the pipe. Now, just "Unhide" the layer in the "Layers" panel.
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3skeng Pipe now Available for Mac
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The piping system plug-in 3skeng Pipe introduced for Google SketchUp last month, is now also available for the Mac. The announcement was made today on the SketchUcation Community Forums here.
More information can be found at the 3skeng website.
Short URL: http://news.sketchucation.com/?p=622
The piping system plug-in 3skeng Pipe introduced for Google SketchUp last month, is now also available for the Mac. The announcement was made today on the SketchUcation Community Forums here.More information can be found at the 3skeng website.
Short URL: http://news.sketchucation.com/?p=622
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We drew the entire shop in sketchup first to plan the dc pipe layout.
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We drew the entire shop in sketchup first to plan the dc pipe layout.
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SketchUp Pro Case Study: Daniel Company
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:33 PM
This user story comes from Mark Lessmueller at Daniel Company. It came in via the Tell us your story link on the Sketchup Go Green! site.
Daniel Company has switched to Sketchup Pro for the drafting, design, analysis and construction of its air pollution control systems. Sketchup Pro has helped us visualize potential problems in 3D, allowing us to find conflicts on the computer, rather than in the field. This prevents us from wasting material and resources and reduces our carbon footprint. In addition, we can share our drawings and models with anyone across the globe. They can make suggestions directly on the drawings without having to resort to awkward phone conversations about “what change needs to be implemented where”.
This simplicity allows our clients to ensure that there are no intersections with existing equipment onsite during modifications. Additionally, due to the low cost of Sketchup Pro (especially in comparison to similar products), we were able to install Sketchup Pro on virtually all of our engineering computers, rather than just the drafters’ machines. The ability for our engineers to do some of our drafting when the drawings are “bottlenecking” production has proven invaluable.
We are about to begin start-up of the first system we created with SketchUp: a biological system where microorganisms digest the odorous pollutants. The system relies entirely on wastewater treatment plant products to feed the bacteria, rather than the typical method of spraying highly reactive neutralizing chemicals into the polluted airstream. The resultant waste of the bacteria can then be conveyed back into the wastewater treatment plant and treated via the microbes in that system.
While the air pollution control system was originally conceived by the treatment plant's design consultant engineer, the actual odor control system manufacture was drafted, designed, analyzed, and constructed using Sketchup and LayOut. This includes an air conveyance system, hydraulic profiles, plumbing layouts, water control panels, two 12' Ø x 40' tall fiberglass reactors, and two 12' Ø x 20' tall fiberglass adsorbers. (Each of the 12' Ø vessels was made in our shop in accordance to the LayOut files.) As the system is starting up, we are also planning to visualize this model in Google Earth.
Each of the pieces of the ducting (which supplies fresh air to the building and captures the foul air) was modeled in SketchUp and then turned into a cut sheet. Our fiberglass duct, tank, and scrubber shop easily fabricated the individual pieces. Thanks to Sketchup, it is a lot easier to make sure that each piece will fit on a truck (sent from California to Virginia), rather than relying on 2D drafting.
Since this was our first major project in SketchUp, most of it was created using the standard SketchUp tools. The plugins we did use were mostly custom modifications of plugins that were available for alteration. The CenterPoint and Conetop plugins were used to help make pipe transitions and to align pipes. We modified the Mesh Additions and the Parametric scripts to create an “elbow tool”. The PVC piping in the water panels was created with a combination of native SketchUp tools, this “elbow tool” plugin and the CenterPoint plugin.
Air Pollution Control Biological Scrubber External Sump - Model Concept Drawing. This illustration shows where rough nozzle placement would occur. The vessel nozzles were rough, and the gussets inaccurate, but this illustration was good enough to ensure that a conceptual model was feasible.
Since this project, we have created multiple other air pollution control projects using SketchUp and LayOut. We’ve also used quite a few other freeware plugins. (We’re big fans of Fredo6 and Chris Fullmer’s plugins). FredoScale and Joint Push Pull have saved us on a number of more delicate projects, especially where we make a small apparatus and then need to show thickness in the ducting, or building our damper library. And Chris Fullmer's Shape Bender has helped out quite a bit for other jobs where nothing else seems to work.
We’re now working to model some of our older existing projects in SketchUp and visualize them in Google Earth.
Overall component setup. This setup illustrates how each of the vessel components and scrubbing systems connected for a proper system.
Thanks for sharing your work, Mark!
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Daniel Company has switched to Sketchup Pro for the drafting, design, analysis and construction of its air pollution control systems. Sketchup Pro has helped us visualize potential problems in 3D, allowing us to find conflicts on the computer, rather than in the field. This prevents us from wasting material and resources and reduces our carbon footprint. In addition, we can share our drawings and models with anyone across the globe. They can make suggestions directly on the drawings without having to resort to awkward phone conversations about “what change needs to be implemented where”.
This simplicity allows our clients to ensure that there are no intersections with existing equipment onsite during modifications. Additionally, due to the low cost of Sketchup Pro (especially in comparison to similar products), we were able to install Sketchup Pro on virtually all of our engineering computers, rather than just the drafters’ machines. The ability for our engineers to do some of our drafting when the drawings are “bottlenecking” production has proven invaluable.
We are about to begin start-up of the first system we created with SketchUp: a biological system where microorganisms digest the odorous pollutants. The system relies entirely on wastewater treatment plant products to feed the bacteria, rather than the typical method of spraying highly reactive neutralizing chemicals into the polluted airstream. The resultant waste of the bacteria can then be conveyed back into the wastewater treatment plant and treated via the microbes in that system.
SketchUp model details
While the air pollution control system was originally conceived by the treatment plant's design consultant engineer, the actual odor control system manufacture was drafted, designed, analyzed, and constructed using Sketchup and LayOut. This includes an air conveyance system, hydraulic profiles, plumbing layouts, water control panels, two 12' Ø x 40' tall fiberglass reactors, and two 12' Ø x 20' tall fiberglass adsorbers. (Each of the 12' Ø vessels was made in our shop in accordance to the LayOut files.) As the system is starting up, we are also planning to visualize this model in Google Earth.
Water Control Cabinet Concept Model. This model was used to visualize the size of the water control cabinet, as well as feasibility.
Each of the pieces of the ducting (which supplies fresh air to the building and captures the foul air) was modeled in SketchUp and then turned into a cut sheet. Our fiberglass duct, tank, and scrubber shop easily fabricated the individual pieces. Thanks to Sketchup, it is a lot easier to make sure that each piece will fit on a truck (sent from California to Virginia), rather than relying on 2D drafting.
Water Control Cabinet Construction Diagram. Illustrative table to show the flow diagram for the water control cabinet and estimate pressure losses.
Since this was our first major project in SketchUp, most of it was created using the standard SketchUp tools. The plugins we did use were mostly custom modifications of plugins that were available for alteration. The CenterPoint and Conetop plugins were used to help make pipe transitions and to align pipes. We modified the Mesh Additions and the Parametric scripts to create an “elbow tool”. The PVC piping in the water panels was created with a combination of native SketchUp tools, this “elbow tool” plugin and the CenterPoint plugin.
Air Pollution Control Biological Scrubber External Sump - Model Concept Drawing. This illustration shows where rough nozzle placement would occur. The vessel nozzles were rough, and the gussets inaccurate, but this illustration was good enough to ensure that a conceptual model was feasible.
Air Pollution Control Biological Scrubber External Sump - For Construction Drawing. This layout drawing shows the more accurate renderings, the additional nozzles required, and the steps taken to create an FRP vessel for construction.
Since this project, we have created multiple other air pollution control projects using SketchUp and LayOut. We’ve also used quite a few other freeware plugins. (We’re big fans of Fredo6 and Chris Fullmer’s plugins). FredoScale and Joint Push Pull have saved us on a number of more delicate projects, especially where we make a small apparatus and then need to show thickness in the ducting, or building our damper library. And Chris Fullmer's Shape Bender has helped out quite a bit for other jobs where nothing else seems to work.
We’re now working to model some of our older existing projects in SketchUp and visualize them in Google Earth.
Overall component setup. This setup illustrates how each of the vessel components and scrubbing systems connected for a proper system.Thanks for sharing your work, Mark!
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2 comments:
- Superbly clear and precise illustrations.
- December 18, 2010 11:25 AM
- Great illustration make it easy to understand complex problems. You should check out 3skeng to generate the pipework.
- January 12, 2011 6:42 PM
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Sketchup advice needed. I am trying to work up a new layout for my shop using Sketchup, and I am really close to where I want to be. However I am having difficulty with the dust control system layout. Every time I try to rotate a pipe segment, I get angles I do not want, say I want to rotate simply on the X axis, but I end up with rotation on Y and Z axis as well... How do I constrain rotation of an object along a 2d plane so I can rotate a pipe a simple 90 degrees?
the easiest way is to hold the shift key when you get on the Helper lines(red, green, Blue lines). when you see that your going in the right direction hold the shift key and then that is the plane you will move in no matter what.
The way i do pipes is in this way. it is easy and fast. you have to use the follow me tool, if you don't have a button out for it you can find it in the tools section underneath the push me tool
the first thing you do is draw your layout of where you want the pipes to go, using just one line. this is the line that the "follow me tool" will use or follow. I usually use the center line of the pipe. Then you put in a radius for it to follow. it doesn't need a radius as this tool will bend anything do with it. I'll put up another example in a minute.
after you have all the lines drawn of where you want it to go and the radiuses are in then you put a circle, or square(house heating ducts) or whatever shape you want to have follow that line.
Then select the follow me tool and you use it in the same way as the push/pull tool only you follow the line and watch the magic happen. You can stop at any point as i showed you, but if you stop on a radius sometimes you can't keep going so i always stop on a strait run. That way i can make it longer if i need to.
The way i do pipes is in this way. it is easy and fast. you have to use the follow me tool, if you don't have a button out for it you can find it in the tools section underneath the push me tool
the first thing you do is draw your layout of where you want the pipes to go, using just one line. this is the line that the "follow me tool" will use or follow. I usually use the center line of the pipe. Then you put in a radius for it to follow. it doesn't need a radius as this tool will bend anything do with it. I'll put up another example in a minute.
after you have all the lines drawn of where you want it to go and the radiuses are in then you put a circle, or square(house heating ducts) or whatever shape you want to have follow that line.
Then select the follow me tool and you use it in the same way as the push/pull tool only you follow the line and watch the magic happen. You can stop at any point as i showed you, but if you stop on a radius sometimes you can't keep going so i always stop on a strait run. That way i can make it longer if i need to.
here is my example of how the follow me tool will use any shape and follow it on any line. weather or not there is a radius
Here are some random shapes that i made and the one on the far right is one i just drew to show you that it really can be ANY shape. And the line that it will follow is kinda random also the last bend is not 90* its just one that i drew. as you can see it will follow any line with any shape and put all the lines in the right spot to get around the angles. you can even use these weird shapes to go around radius's.
Let me know if you have any more questions about sketchup. I have played with it for many hours and watched i don't know how many videos on it so i hope i can help. I also have the book Sketch up for dummies which is very good. I could look stuff up in there if you need help
Here are some random shapes that i made and the one on the far right is one i just drew to show you that it really can be ANY shape. And the line that it will follow is kinda random also the last bend is not 90* its just one that i drew. as you can see it will follow any line with any shape and put all the lines in the right spot to get around the angles. you can even use these weird shapes to go around radius's.
Let me know if you have any more questions about sketchup. I have played with it for many hours and watched i don't know how many videos on it so i hope i can help. I also have the book Sketch up for dummies which is very good. I could look stuff up in there if you need help
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Google Sketchup
I recently found out about this great new (?) program called Google Sketchup. Pretty much it is a 3D modeling program which is fairly comprehensive and easy to use with great online tutorial videos. I decided to attempt to make a scale 3D model of my AP system as practice for when I am designing a new and large system in the future. Anyway, the final product is below.
In Fruita until Thursday night. Hope the system is functioning well. Will post an update probably on Monday, once I get off a weekend San Juan trip!
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just search "sketchup about pipe" on google via "map", and I find above that...
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Google SketchUp is very helpful and convenient when architects want to evaluate or compare their design concepts or show their concepts to owners or developers by virtualizing their design.
Nice article anyway did you know hdpe pipes
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