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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
Setting Styles
Tube and pipe styles describe the characteristics for tube, pipe, and hose routes. These styles
are key to controlling the design of the routed system as it evolves from prototype to
manufacturing.
This chapter provides basic information about the available options, how to set them, how
to modify and change them, and how to add them to a template.
About Tube and Pipe Styles
Tube and pipe styles affect most aspects of route design from route creation and
editing to populating the route. They are used to ensure consistent application
of tube and pipe components. For example, conduit parts and fittings in a pipe
run often have certain requirements for size, route direction, and materials.
With tube and pipe styles, you can set these requirements once, and then apply
them to the design.
When defining a style, you are specifying the conduit part and fittings from
the Content Center libraries that make up the pipe run and establishing rules
to be followed during routing.
There is a list of system-supplied tube and pipe styles in Autodesk
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Inventor
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Routed Systems. You can use one of these styles, create your own style based
on one of them, or create your own style based on published conduit parts and
fittings.
NOTE It is possible to define a style with which you are unable to create a route,
such as if you select fittings that do not have compatible end treatments. While the
Tube & Pipe Styles tool allows styles to be defined in this way, routes cannot be
created using such a style.
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