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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
When you install Autodesk Inventor Professional, your selection of default
units of measurement sets the default template used to create standard Inventor
assemblies and the default template used to create tube and pipe runs
subassemblies. For example, if you set English (Inches) as the default unit of
measurement during installation, the template in the English subdirectory is
copied to the Design Data\Tube & Pipe directory.
When you customize a set of tube and pipe styles, they are saved in the local
piping runs assembly that you name and locate when you first start your tube
and pipe assembly. To reuse them in future tube and pipe assemblies, you can
export the styles from the local piping runs assembly, and then import them
into a (blank) master runs assembly template. Once added to the master runs
assembly template, your styles can be used in other tube and pipe assemblies.
NOTE You must check the Use Styles Library option for the project. If it is set to
No, you may receive a warning message in this exercise. You must set the option
to either Yes or Read Only. Otherwise, you cannot continue defining tube and
pipe styles and populate routes in the exercises that follow.
Add custom styles to an assembly template
1 Create a new, empty assembly file.
2
On the Assembly panel bar, click the Create Pipe Run tool.
3 When prompted, save the assembly file. On the Create Tube and Pipe
Run dialog box, click OK to save the file using the defaults.
The main tube and pipe runs assembly is automatically named and
located, and the first run is activated.
4
With the master runs assembly or the first run active, click the Tube
& Pipe Styles tool. Create new styles, modify existing styles, or import
styles as required. Save the changes and then click OK.
5 Right-click and select Finish Edit.
6 Activate the master runs assembly, right-click the individual run Run01,
and then select Delete Run.
7 Click OK to confirm.
8 With the top assembly active, save the file.
9 In the graphics window right-click and select Generate Tube & Pipe
Template.
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