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You should model the core pipeline first and in such a way that the pipeline is contiguous, containing all in-line items, including: valves, flanges, instruments, connections to equipment, and so forth. Use the standard pipe routing procedures just as you would to route a non-jacketed pipeline. See Route Pipe Command.

We do recommend that you place reducers using the origin as the reference position. The origin reference position makes precision placement of the corresponding jacket reducer easier when you route the jacket.

To illustrate this concept, core verses jacket modeling, refer to the following graphic. A section of a jacket piping system's core piping is shown on the left. The jacket pipe overlaid on top of the internal piping is shown on the right. The configuration was designed to illustrate the most common details of a jacketed piping system. It is not inclusive of all situations nor is it intended to represent a realistic piping configuration. This was the best way to compact many details in a small space for illustration.

Placing all connections and in-line components with the internal core piping reduces the number of disconnected sections, produces better isometric drawings, and minimizes the external modeling requirements.

The valves that are used will probably be specific to the jacket piping specification and must be defined in the piping commodity specification like any other valve. Generally, this requires dimension tables specific to the valve being purchased, inclusive of the jacket. If a standard valve is being used and a bolt-on jacket is being applied, then the implied item feature of the piping commodity specification should be used to account for that jacket item. Consideration should be given to interference detection when the implied method is being used. Possibly provide a special dimension table based on a user defined geometric industry standard to allow for the spatial requirements of valve and jacket.