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Reversing the flow of a pipe line

Reversing the flow of a pipe line - AutoCAD P&ID Tutorial

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Reversing the flow of a pipe line

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- [Instructor] Once you've placed your pipeline in the drawing, at some point you may need to show the line with a reverse flow. Luckily we won't have to redraw the line to reflect the change, we have a tool for that. So, let's look at drawing 0407 and let's take a look at some of the lines that just have arrows on them. Our arrows are coming in the direction of flow and you can see in certain components we need to have flow dependency. So, in this case I'm going to show you using check valves. We always have to have the check valve follow the flow of the line. So, traditional methods meant that we would have to either flip that manually or redraw that block to show the arrow pointing the other way. Luckily with our Schematic Line Edit we can right click, Schematic Line Edit option and we have a tool here to reverse flow. So, I'm going to reverse the flow on this line and watch what happens. You'll notice that when we reverse the flow on the line, the arrows change direction, the…

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