Refining the Automatic Pipe Routes

The automatic routing process often results in a set of common centerline routes down the center of a rack. The following section describes the rack ordering facilities which are able to refine these routes into a more acceptable form.

The rack ordering process works by spreading a number of pipes across a predefined rack volume. Various options which may be set to control the spacing of pipes and the direction of spread across the rack. The parameters which need to be input are:

• The location and dimensions of the rack (the RACK command)

• How the pipes are to be arranged on the rack (the SDIR command)

• The order in which the pipes will be placed

• The minimum clearance between adjacent pipes