Place Plumbing Equipment

This tool lets you place plumbing equipment, such as hot water heaters, domestic water pumps, and sewage pumps in a plumbing system.

Plumbing equipment often connects to more than one system type such as hot and cold water.

  1. In the Project Browser, open a view where you want to place the plumbing equipment.
  2. In the drawing area, zoom in on the area where you want to place the plumbing equipment for the piping system.
  3. Click Systems tabPlumbing & Piping panel Plumbing Equipment, and in the Type Selector, select a particular equipment type.
  4. On the ribbon, verify that Tag on Placement is selected to automatically tag equipment. Then specify the following tagging options on the Options Bar:
    If you want to ... then ...
    change the orientation of the tag select Horizontal or Vertical.
    load additional tags click Tags.
    include a leader line between the tag and the equipment select Leader.
    change the default length of the leader enter a value in the text box to the right of the Leader check box.
  5. On the Options bar, specify whether you want to enable rotate after placement.
  6. Move the cursor to where you want to place the plumbing equipment, and click.
    Tip: You can press SPACE to rotate the equipment prior to placing it in the view. The equipment is rotated by 90 degrees each time you press SPACE.