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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
Populate Route tool, tube and
pipe 94
Populate Route, tube and pipe 87
Projected View 188
publish part 173
Replace from Content Center 135
Report 328
Report Generator 328
Restore Fitting, tube and pipe 114
Rotation Snap, tube and pipe 80
Route 294
Route, tube and pipe 52, 114
Symbols 204
Tube & Pipe Authoring 153, 164
Tube & Pipe Styles 52
View Properties 198
translator, Intermediate Data Format
(IDF) 367
Tube & Pipe Authoring dialog box 155
Tube & Pipe Authoring tool 153, 164
Tube & Pipe Settings dialog box 15
Tube & Pipe Styles dialog box 37
Tube & Pipe Styles tool 52
tube and pipe 3–4, 6–7, 13, 15, 112
browser 6
context menus 112
environment 4
features 3
panel bar 13
settings 15
Tube and Pipe panel bar 111
tube routes 24
tubing with bends styles 45
tutorial files 9, 212
locating 212
Twist Control tool 323–325
changing size 325
conductor one indicator 324
orientation bar 324
rotation handles 324
U
Unroute tool 300–301
Unroute Wires dialog box 299
V
View Properties tool 198
views 186, 188
base for assemblies 186
projected 188
virtual parts, assigning 261
W
wire and cable displays 274
wire data libraries 233
wire ID naming conventions 251
wire libraries 233, 235–236, 238, 243
data, importing and exporting 243
definitions 238
locating 233
viewing files 235
Wire Library dialog box 236
wire lists 262, 266
importing 266
Wire Properties dialog box 272
wire work points 268, 270–271
adding 268
deleting 271
moving 270
redefining 270
wires 224, 228, 234, 238, 240–242, 249,
251, 256, 259–260, 262, 266,
268, 270–271, 274, 293, 295,
297, 299–301, 330, 336
adding points 268
assemblies, inserting in 249
automatic routing 297
delete points 271
deleting 259
displaying 224, 228, 274
importing 262
library definitions 238, 240–241
library files, locating 234
lists, importing 266
manual routes 295
moving 256
moving points 270
naming 251
properties, customizing 242
Index | 387