Limitation

Description

Workaround

Fixed In

1

Automatic split of drawing

Automatic split of drawing if all components do not fit a single drawing sheet is not available.

User can define custom break points to achieve this behavior

11.03

2

Drawing are not true to scale

OpenPlant Isometrics Manager drawings are not true to scale and the plotting is not proportional to actual size

3

Disconnected Pipeline not supported

Disconnected Pipeline is not supported similar to ISOGEN

User can select a connected pipeline manually using window selection or use View > Show > Connected Segments

4

OpenPlant Configuration Manager not integrated

OpenPlant Configuration Manager not integrated with AutoPIPE directly and will be integrated in a later version

Directions to modify

5

Data tables will always printed on right side of frame

Data tables if enabled will always be printed on right side of the drawing frame

User can change the seed file to locate the tables to a different location. This will be a difficult process but can be done if required.

6

Dimension lines collide with symbols

Dimension lines don’t automatically avoid collisions with other symbols e.g. supports

Dimension lines can be modified in OpenPlant Isometrics Manager after the isometric drawing is produced 

Default distance of different types of dimension lines from pipeline can be modified as well

7

No control on show dimensions above or below the pipeline

User doesn’t have a control on whether to show dimensions above or below the pipeline

User can change the distance of each different type of dimension line from the pipeline

8

Drawing is not always in the center of available drawing area

Produced isometrics do not make optimal use of available white space and drawing is not always in the center of available drawing area

9

Drawing margins to control drawing area are not configurable on the fly

Drawing margins to control drawing area are set in the frame file and are not configurable on the fly

See WIKI to “Modify drawing area on the border file” 

10

No option available to control the drawing number

Data table overflow is handled but the options available earlier are missing to control the drawing number etc. This can be added in a future version

In case of data table over flow the drawing number convention is [page No]/[Total Pages] like (2/4).

Right now graphics overflow was not handled but user has an option of break point to split drawing in to multiple sheets.

User can relocate drawing number

11

Location of north arrow not configurable on fly

Location of north arrow is fixed in the frame file to upper left corner and not configurable on the fly

See WIKI “Relocate north arrow to a different position”

12

Location of drawing number is not configurable on fly

Location of drawing number is fixed in cell/frame file and not configurable on the fly

See WIKI “Relocate drawing number to a different position” 

13

Annotation text font and size is not configurable on fly

Annotation text font and size is set in the frame file and not configurable on the fly

See WIKI

Change annotation color & font

and

Change text height at node point / support

14

Does not print directly to PDF

As of May 2022, AutoPIPE exports the stress isometric as DGN, DXF, or DWG. There is no support for printing directly to PDF

To print PDF files of Isometric drawings, open drawing in OPIM or other application and use that application to print individual PDF files. Also, consider using Adobe software to join individual PDFs into a single PDF file.