Designers create piping systems using rigid or flexible tubes for any particular application. There are a lot of other considerations made during the design. This tutorial shows how to use Solidworks and its inbuilt tools and libraries to create piping and tubing system solutions.
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Design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid
systems, and process plant piping by using Solidworks.
With SolidWorks Premium, designers can:• Create piping system designs with butt welded, socket welded, threaded, and other connections• Create flexible or rigid tubing lines• Automate placement of supports and hangers for all lines• Generate bend tables for tube routes to support manufacturing• Calculate cut lengths for all pipe and tube runs• Auto-route pipe/tube paths through the design that can be easily edited according to assembly and service needs• Ensure minimum bend radii in flexible tube systems• Output PCF files for use with ISOGEN® piping software• Export tubing/piping bend tables to CNC benders• Automatically generate piping/tubing manufacturing drawings from your 3D models• Import logical connection information design from SolidWorks Solution Partner products• Automatically create bill of material (BOM), cut lists, bend tables, and other manufacturing documentation• Access a CAD library of piping and tubing components• Use the Routing Library Manager (RLM) wizard to guide creation of custom piping/tubing components
The model given below is the Isometric Drawing. The article teaches the basic steps involved in preparing Isometric drawing in an Solidworks 2012 Software
After saving the sub-assembly, we want to select the connection point (C Point) as shown below.
To create a c-point we need to select a vertex or sketch point and a plane or face or the end face of a cylinder to define start of the route. Always this message will be pop-up in a message box.
Press Tab button to rotate/flip the fittings items while placing. After placing the concentric reducer, the pipe automatically updated to the reducing size.
After placing all fittings, come out of the edit mode.