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Plumbing: Add and modify placeholder pipe

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Plumbing: Add and modify placeholder pipe

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- [Presenter] The next trick is to trade a pipe placeholder. I don't know why you'll ever do it, but it's on the exam so let's add a pipe placeholder. So under Projects let's go Open. Let's go to Plumbing Piping, let's click Open. Under Floorplans, let's go 1-Plumbing. And I'm going to draw some pipe placeholders. So let's go to Systems. Let's go to Pipe Placeholder. Now you draw it just like a normal pipe, so I'm going to pick a point right here. Come up to here. Maybe over to here. Notice that it's not putting fittings in, though. Come over to here. Maybe change my offset to four feet. It'll put our drop symbol in. Come down to here. Maybe put my offset back to nine feet. Come over to here. Now we've got some pipe in there. I'm going to go to a 3D view. I'm gonna zoom in on our pipe placeholder, which really looks just like a pipe. So I'm gonna click on Thin Lines, make sure Thin Lines is turned on. And I'm gonna set our Detail Level to Fine. Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna…

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