You can use the Pipe drawing tool to create pipelines on your Mimics. The pipelines are rectangular shapes that are pre-formatted to use pipe gradient shading which creates the illusion of a cylindrical shape.
To add a pipe drawing to a Mimic:
- Display a Mimic in Design mode.
- Select Pipe in the Drawing command group on the Graphics Tab.
- Draw the pipeline in the same way that you would draw a polygon (that is, left-click on a position, then move the cursor to a new position, then left-click again). Each time you press the left-hand mouse button, you define a new corner for the pipe. To complete the pipe drawing, double-click the left hand mouse button.
When you have double-clicked to define the end of the pipe drawing, the pipe is selected as a single object on the Mimic. It is gray with black and white shading by default. You can alter its settings via the Pipe Properties window (see Editing a Pipe).