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Pipe supports

Pipe supports

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Pipe supports

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- [Instructor] Pipe supports are found in the tool palette with the piping components. When we insert supports into our piping model, they become attached to the piping line so that the location and the type of support is annotated and dimensioned in our isometric drawings. Let's add some pipe supports to our model. So we're going to open 0507 piping, and I'm just going to throw some basic supports in here, you don't have to follow along exactly what I'm doing here and feel free to experiment a little and make some practice supports in here as well. I'll just show you the basics on how they work, and you can find them by coming down to the pipe supports spec on your tool palette, or you also have the option to add them from up here in the pipe supports panel in the ribbon menu. So supports are fairly straightforward. I'm going to just add a couple here. For example, if we want to create a hanger from some of the steel, we're going to go to my top view, and I'm just going to grab…

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