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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
drawings and presentations 376
import options 370
importing as assemblies 371
importing as parts 371
setting colors 371
Import IDF Options dialog box 370
Import Wire Library tool 245
Import Wire List tool 266
importing data 265
Include Geometry tool 34, 127
individual runs, tube and pipe 15
Info tab 331
insert fittings 112
Insert Node tool 100, 114, 118
iPart Author table 162
iParts 161, 164, 173, 176
authoring 164
in tube and pipe 161
pipe, publishing 173
publishing elbow 176
ISOGEN properties 160
K
keepouts board entity 368
key words 332
L
labels, assigning 262
lengths of hose routes 102
libraries, Content Center 149, 172
setting up 172
Library Browser dialog box 40
library wires 238, 240–243
definitions 238, 241–242
editing 240
importing and exporting 243
link types 332
M
master runs assemblies 11, 15
settings 15
tube and pipe 11
Mode Node tool 114
Move Segment tool 114, 119
N
nailboard environment 342
Nailboard panel bar 225
Nailboard tool 342
Nailboard View tool 225, 342
nailboards 344–345, 362
browser 344
printing 362
setting display behavior 345
New Library Wire tool 239
New Route tool 31, 52
nominal diameters, flexible hoses 94
non associative points for pins 211
notes for IDF data 369
O
occurrence properties 230
outlines board entity 368
P
panel bars 13, 111, 185, 202, 225, 227
Cable and Harness 225, 227
Drawing Sketch 202
Drawing views 185
Drawing Views panel bar 185
Route 111
Tube & Pipe 13, 111
Parallel tool 34
parameters, connection number 157
parametric regions 56
parts 153, 156, 161, 173, 178, 210, 217,
219–220, 229
customizing properties 220
electrical 210, 220
harness, demoting and
promoting 229
pinned, modifying and deleting 219
preparing iParts 161
properties 217
Index | 383