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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
Authoring and Publishing
To take advantage of the Content Center functionality, such as queries and dropping conduit
parts and fittings, you must publish custom tube and pipe iParts and normal parts to the
Content Center. For example, custom parts in the Content Center can be shared in multiple
projects so you do not need to save the same custom parts for each project workspace.
In this chapter, you learn how to use the Tube & Pipe Authoring tool to author tube and pipe
iParts, and use the Publish Part tool to publish authored parts to the Content Center for future
use in tube and pipe assemblies. You also learn how to publish normal parts as fittings.
About Authoring and Publishing
You must publish parts to a library to which you have read/write permissions.
Otherwise, go to your system administrator to request permissions.
Publishing parts automatically points to the default category in which they
must be published in the active library. If you click into another category, click
the default category in the library tree again to continue the publishing.
The task of authoring and publishing is performed using two tools in sequence:
■ Autodesk Inventor Tube & Pipe Authoring tool
■ Autodesk Inventor Publish Part tool
Authoring Tube and Pipe Parts
After you create a custom fitting or component and transform it to an iPart
factory, you can use the Tube & Pipe Authoring tool to prepare the part for
publishing to the Content Center. You can also author and publish a normal
part (not an iPart) as a fitting.
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