# Piping Differentiation

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/piping-differentiation/100925>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/piping-differentiation/100925 "2025-01-15T14:27:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liam\_Dietrich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@Liam\_Dietrich](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Liam_Dietrich)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/piping-differentiation/100925/1 "2025-01-15T14:27:22Z")

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**Goal:** Differentiate various pipe types, without using color.  
**Ideas:**

- In-Line Text,
- Tooltips
- Line Styles (More than the 4 provided)

**Question:** Has anyone got any of these ideas to work or have any other suggestions?

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**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/piping-differentiation/100925/2 "2025-01-15T15:30:29Z")

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For some of our customers we use line thicknesses to differentiate between various lines. Since we're oil and gas, we use (in Vision) widths of 5 for main process lines, 3 for liquid process lines (like glycol, amine, etc), and 1 for any slop/dump/discharge lines (all solid). Lines connecting PID blocks/symbols, select blocks, analog input graphics to the process lines are a width of 1 but dashed.

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**Author:** ![Liam\_Dietrich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@Liam\_Dietrich](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Liam_Dietrich)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/piping-differentiation/100925/3 "2025-01-15T15:35:18Z")

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Thank you for the suggestion!  
I am trying to differentiate eight (8) various pipe types, so line thickness may not be applicable. But maybe if they can be grouped, I will look into the suggestion. Thanks again.

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/piping-differentiation/100925/4 "2025-01-15T17:04:25Z")

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> [@Liam\_Dietrich](#):
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> I am trying to differentiate eight (8) various pipe types

Being able to vary 2 things to 3 differnt values you can have up to 9 representations. Throw in a column for 3 different text values and you gain an additional 18 variations.

For instance:

Possible Line Style's: Solid, Dashed, Mid Arrow  
Possible Line Thickness: 1, 3, 5

Type Number |Line Type | Line Thickness

| Type Number | Line Type | Line Thickness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Solid | 1 |
| 2 | Solid | 3 |
| 3 | Solid | 5 |
| 4 | Dashed | 1 |
| 5 | Dashed | 3 |
| 6 | Dashed | 5 |
| 7 | Mid Arrow | 1 |
| 8 | Mid Arrow | 3 |
| 9 | Mid Arrow | 5 |

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Muldoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Jeff\_Muldoon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jeff_Muldoon)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/piping-differentiation/100925/5 "2025-01-15T17:14:37Z")

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I did different sizes for different applications just like this. It really does make it easy to see the different parts of the process