Topic: Top of Pipe elevations in label (Pressure Fittings)

[PHX cadie]

Newbie back (and still a newb)

I've been doing profiles for awhile now but the office in another state has requested "top of pipe elevs" for their profiles. I've labeled pressure fittings along the alignment and I can use expressions to add to the fitting "insert" elev, (CL elev) but without a fitting size it seems I have to use hard numbers and a unique label style for each pipe size:

12" pipe"  expression  (insert elev +.5+wall thickness)
8" pipe  expression (insert elev+.33+wall thickness)

Is there a better way?

Also I'm curious is top o pipe a "norm"?
Considering the difficulty in labeling top o pipe, I don't think this is the standard. I've always used pressure is CL, gravity is invert

Pls don't go to a lot of effort (Swampers have always gone the extra mile) and none of this is a show stopper, I'm just baffled

Thxs, glad to see all's well in the Swamp!

[steve.carson]

Sorry that I can't answer your Civil 3D question, but I can say that having the top of pipe elevation can be handy when you have other utilities crossing it. Also, most jurisdictions I deal with have minimum depth requirements for different utilities that are measured to the top of pipe. I don't know that I've ever used the top of pipe as the sole means of defining the elevation of it though. I usually use inverts and centers like you and throw in a couple top of pipes as a reference.

[PHX cadie]

thank you