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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
Contains several Tube & Pipe-specific tools in addition
to the standard Autodesk Inventor tools, such as the
Display/Update Settings tool and the Active Style list.
Use Tools ➤ Customize ➤ Toolbars to enable the
additional Tube & Pipe and Tube & Pipe Runs toolbar.
Standard toolbar
Contains the Tube & Pipe Authoring tool to author
tube and pipe iParts and normal parts for publishing
to the Content Center.
Part Features panel
bar
Tube & Pipe Browser
All tube and pipe components added to an assembly are contained in the
main runs subassembly. The components include individual runs and their
associated routes, fittings, segments, and route points.
Each run contains an Origin folder, one or more routes, and any segments or
fittings that are populated or manually inserted.
Routes contain the designated route points. To become familiar with the
various components in the browser, open a sample tube and pipe assembly.
Use the Tube & Pipe Browser
1 Open the sample tube and pipe assembly, Accumulator. By default, it is
located at: Windows
®
XP C:\Program
Files\Autodesk\Inventor<version>\Samples\Models\Tube & Pipe\Accumulator.
Windows
®
Vista
™
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor<version>\Samples\Models\Tube
& Pipe\Cooling Tower
2 Activate and expand the master runs assembly Tube & Pipe Runs and
Pipe Run 1.
Pipe Run 1 contains components for a bent tubing style run.
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