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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
To correctly define new materials for tube and pipe styles, you must enable
the Use Styles Library setting for your project. For detailed instructions, see
Setting Up Projects For Exercises on page 10 in Chapter 1.
WARNING Do not confuse tube and pipe styles with styles and style libraries in
Autodesk
®
Inventor
™
. They are two separate, unrelated entities.
Access Tube and Pipe Styles
Before you begin working with routes and runs, examine the style settings,
and then select the style you need.
To work with styles, activate the tube and pipe environment and start the
Tube & Pipe Styles tool to display the Tube & Pipe Styles dialog box. The Tube
& Pipe Styles tool can be accessed on the panel bars or right-click menu when
you activate:
■ The master runs assembly
■ A run
■ A route
Tube & Pipe Styles tool
Existing styles are also available from the Active Style list on the standard
toolbar.
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