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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Tubes and Pipes
- 1 Getting Started with Tube & Pipe
- 2 Route Basics
- 3 Setting Styles
- 4 Creating Rigid Routes and Runs
- General Workflow for Rigid Routes
- Creating Auto Route Regions
- Manually Creating Parametric Regions
- Automatically Dimension Route Sketches
- Create Segments With Precise Values
- Define Parallel and Perpendicular Segments
- Snap Route Points to Existing Geometry
- Place Constraints On Route Sketches
- Create Bends Between Existing Pipe Segments
- Create Pipe Routes With Custom Bends
- Create Bent Tube Routes
- Realign 3D Orthogonal Route Tool
- Control Dimension Visibility
- Populated Routes
- 5 Creating and Editing Flexible Hose Routes
- 6 Editing Rigid Routes and Runs
- 7 Using Content Center Libraries
- 8 Authoring and Publishing
- 9 Documenting Routes and Runs
- Cable and Harness
- 10 Getting Started with Cable and Harness
- 11 Working With Harness Assemblies
- 12 Using the Cable and Harness Library
- 13 Working with Wires and Cables
- About Wires and Cables
- Setting Modeling and Curvature Behavior
- Inserting Wires and Cables Manually
- Moving Wires and Cables
- Deleting Wires and Cables
- Replacing Wires
- Assigning Virtual Parts
- Importing Harness Data
- Adding Shape to Wires and Cable Wires
- Setting Occurrence Properties
- Changing Wire and Cable Displays
- 14 Working with Segments
- 15 Routing Wires and Cables
- 16 Working with Splices
- 17 Working with Ribbon Cables
- 18 Generating Reports
- 19 Working Nailboards and Drawings
- IDF Translator
- Index
To complete the connection, you must have one free fitting and a base fitting
or fittings as specified in the following images. You also specify the engagement
type, as well as the engagement distance when User Defined is selected from
the Engagement list.
Can be a fitting or a normal Autodesk Inventor part in
the active pipe run assembly that is not driven by a
Free fitting
node in a route or by any other fitting. When inserting
a fitting between an existing fitting connection, the
fitting must be colinear. Once the free fitting is con-
nected to the base component, it is always positioned
relative to the base fitting during updates and other
operations.
Can be a fitting, a conduit part, or a normal Inventor
part that is located anywhere within the assembly.
Base Fitting(s)
When inserting a fitting, the base fittings are restricted
to connected colinear fittings. In both cases the base
fitting specifies the connection that constrains the
position and routing of the free fitting.
Available only when you select a connection between
two fittings or between a component and a fitting that
Engagement
was inserted using the Connect Fitting tool. It includes
three engagement types:
■ Free Fitting: Uses the free fitting engagement type
for the selected connection.
■ Base Fitting: Uses the base fitting engagement type
for the selected connection.
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