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Control the display of pipes

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Control the display of pipes

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- [Instructor] In the last video, you saw how structure styles could be applied to change the appearance of structures. What about pipes? Let's take a look. I want to zoom in nice and close to this sanitary pipe right here. I noticed, let's say when I plotted the drawing that the line representing the sanitary pipe was really dark and I wasn't sure what was causing that. So I'll zoom in really close, and I noticed that the way that this pipe is being displayed is not only is there a double line representing each side of the pipe, but if I zoom in closer, I see that there's a double line on each side of the pipe representing the inside and outside wall. So no wonder I'm getting a really dark line. I'm actually drawing four lines to represent this one pipe. So what's causing that? Well, I'll select the pipe and we'll go up here to Pipe Properties, click the drop down, and then click Edit Pipe Style. If I go to the Display tab, we see that both the inside and outside pipe walls are…

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