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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
3 Expand Hose Run 1 to view components for a flexible hose style run.
4 Continue to expand folders in the hierarchy until you are familiar with
the contents, and then close the assembly.
5 To view components for a rigid pipe run, open the sample, Cooling Tower.
By default, it is located at: Windows XP C:\Program
Files\Autodesk\Inventor<version>\Samples\Models\Tube & Pipe\Cooling
Tower.
Windows Vista
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor<version>\Samples\Models\Tube
& Pipe\Cooling Tower
6 Expand the folders in the hierarchy until you are familiar with the
contents, and then close the assembly.
Working in Autodesk Inventor Installations
If Autodesk Inventor Tube & Pipe is not installed on the system viewing the
tube and pipe data, the master runs assembly and all that it contains is
read-only. This means that the outline of the tube and pipe component is
visible through Autodesk Inventor, but the component cannot be edited, and
new tube and pipe components cannot be added.
When the Tube & Pipe add-in is not installed, the tasks you can perform with
the tube and pipe data include:
■ Open a Tube & Pipe Runs subassembly.
■ Determine interferences with tube and pipe components in populated
routes by selecting the entire tube and pipe runs subassembly in the
browser.
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