Place a manual flow arrow on an Orthographic drawing - Intergraph Smart 3D - Help - Hexagon

You can place flow arrows on pipe objects in orthographic drawings with the Place a Label Command in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

You can also add flows arrows as part of the drawing view style definition.

1. Right-click a drawing, and click Edit on the shortcut menu. The drawing opens for editing in SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

2. On the toolbar, click Manually Place Labels .

3. Click an object in a drawing view to label.

4. In the Label Name list, select More to open the Select Label Rule Dialog.

5. Select a flow label template folder in the left pane of the dialog, select a specific label name in the right pane, and then click OK.

6. Select a pipe object in the drawing to place the label.

   

   If the arrow has a red-crossed circle over it, the selected pipe does not have flow direction defined.

   

7. Right-click to end the command. Save your changes before exiting SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

• To move the flow arrow after placing it, click and drag the arrow by its origin point, identified by the green circle in the middle of the flow arrow object.

• You can remove manual edits from a drawing using the Clear Manual Edits Command in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

• Centerlines must display for pipelines before flow arrows can be placed.