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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
Route Basics
A run is a collection of one or more routes with the same or unique styles that work together
to make up a complete flow system. A route is the path that determines the shape of the flow
system within the assembly and the intelligent placement of library components for the run
along that path.
Some routes contained in a run start and end on the assembly model geometry. Other routes
branch off a primary route to create a network of interconnecting rigid pipes, bent tubes, and
flexible hoses required to represent a single flow system.
Once you have a route, you can populate it with the Content Center library content based
on the tube and pipe style and the defined route path through the assembly.
About Rigid Routes
There are two types of rigid routes: rigid piping and bent tubing. The rigid route
styles, Rigid Pipe with Fittings and Tubing with Bends, contain the rules for
conduit parts and elbows. A pipe route can comprise pipe segments, couplings,
45-degree and 90-degree elbows, gaskets, gaps for groove welds, and custom
bends. A tube route comprises tubing segments and tubing bends. Couplings
connect straight segments and elbows or bends connect each directional change
point. If a butt weld style is active and gaps are set to display, straight segments
and directional change points have gaps between them for groove welds instead
of fittings.
A rigid route can be a series of auto regions and parametric regions:
■ An auto region is created by selecting circular openings and work points as
the start and end route points and can have any number of segments that
are automatically created by the system. As you select two circular openings,
vertices, and work points, the system automatically generates the needed
segments and route points. If more than one routing solution exists based
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