Routing - Piping & Tubing

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Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: SolidWorks Essentials

Description: Routing - Piping and Tubing explains how to create, edit and manage Piping and Tubing routes, from the critical routing components and their design requirements to the sub-assemblies that contain the routes.

The topics covered in this course are:

Fundamentals of Routing

• What is Routing?
• Routing Setup
• General Routing Settings

Piping Routes

• Piping Routes
• Pipes and Piping Components
• Routing Templates
• Creating a Piping Route
• Auto Route
• Using Routing Components with Auto Route
• Editing a Route
• Drag and Drop a Component
• Creating Custom Components
• Interferences and Clearances

Tubing Routes

• Tubing Routes
• Tubes and Tubing Components
• Flexible Tubing with Auto Route
• Orthogonal Tubing Routes with Auto Route
• Bend and Spline Errors
• Starting a Tube Route On the Fly
• Tubing Drawings

Piping and Tubing Changes

• Piping and Tubing Changes
• Pipe Penetrations
• Flange to Flange Connections
• Copying Routes
• Editing Piping Routes
• Editing for Obstructions
• Piping Drawings

Pipe and Tube Routing Components

• Routing Library Parts
• Libraries
• Creating Routing Library Parts
• Pipe and Tube Parts
• Pipe Parts
• Fitting Parts
• Routing Functionality Points
• Elbow Parts
• Tube Parts
• Multi-Body Components
• Equipment
• Assembly Fittings

Using P&ID Files

• Piping and Instrumentation
• Adding a Pipe
• Pipe with Multiple Lines
• Pipes with In-line Fittings
• Process Drawings

Piping Skids

• Piping Skids
• Grid System Feature
• Weldments
• Walk-through Animations
• Avatar Paths

Using SolidWorks Content

• Using SolidWorks Content
• Creating a Routing Settings File

Review Section

• Review of Configurations
• A Note About File References
• Design Tables
• Review of Top Down Design
• Editing Options
• Review of Design Library Task Pane
• Review of 3D Sketching