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Autodesk Inventor® Professional Tube & Pipe is an add- ■ Introduction
■ Tube and pipe environment
in to the Autodesk Inventor® assembly environment. It
■ General workflow
provides the capability to create complete tube and pipe
■ Creating tube and pipe
assemblies
systems in mechanical assembly designs.
■ Tube and pipe browser
This chapter provides basic information about the tube ■ Use tube and pipe data
and pipe assembly, and how to use tube and pipe data.
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About Tube and Pipe
Autodesk Inventor Professional Tube and Pipe includes features for setting
tube and pipe styles, adding runs and routes to mechanical assemblies or
product designs, populating selected routes with library components, and
adding optional fittings. When a tube and pipe run is complete, the tube and
pipe information can be represented in drawings and presentations.
Browser toolbar
Tube & Pipe library
The Tube & Pipe Runs assembly is named automatically. It can be renamed
through the Design Assistant if desired. In the Create Tube & Pipe Run dialog
box that appears you provide a unique name and location for the individual
run contained in the Tube & Pipe Runs assembly. By default, the file is named
pirun.1234567890123.iam (where 1234567890123 is an incremental 13-digit
number), and is saved to the location of the open assembly file.
The Tube & Pipe Runs assembly is added to the browser along with other
placed components and is arranged in the order it was added to the assembly.
The tube and pipe run environment and the individual run are activated.
5 Click OK.
The tube and pipe run is automatically named and saved to the location of
the open assembly. The run is saved using the name and location indicated
in the dialog box. The system adds the tube and pipe run subassembly to the
browser and activates the tools in the Tube & Pipe run panel bar, as shown in
the following illustration.
6 Locate the Tube & Pipe Runs assembly in the browser hierarchy.
The individual run is automatically added and activated so that you can
begin defining a route and adding components.
7 In the browser panel bar, click the arrow beside Model to display the tube and
pipe library menu option.
route nodes
fittings
segments
■ Create a parts list that collects all library components with the same part
number, and then display the component as a single line item with the
length summed. Components with unique part numbers are displayed on
separate rows in the parts list.
■ Display the summed row for the selected tubing component as a single
item number in drawing balloons.
■ Annotate individual runs with style property data.
The templates appear on the Professional tab of the File Open dialog box.
These templates can be used when you document tube and pipe assemblies
in drawings. You can also update your existing templates to include this
information. Refer to the Autodesk Inventor Professional Help for details
about setting these items manually.