Piping · Complete SOLIDWORKS learning path
Rigid pipes, tubes and flexible tubing routed in your assemblies, through to the drawing.
Free video training · 3D Design
Six lessons to master the SOLIDWORKS Routing module for piping and tubing: create a route, modify it, route tubes, extend the library and produce the drawings. The path starts with activating the add-in and ends with a drawing that includes a BOM.
6 lessons
15 videos
Intermediate to advanced
Free
What you will be able to do
✓Understand how a route is organized in its route subassembly
✓Create a piping route automatically or manually, and modify it
✓Route orthogonal tubes and flexible tubing between components
✓Create your own routing components and produce drawings for piping and tubing
Where to start
Start with lesson 1: the route subassembly and the library are used everywhere after that. You work mainly with tubes and flexible tubing: go straight to lesson 4 after lesson 2.
The program
01Get started with RoutingActivate the add-in, understand the route subassembly, prepare a custom assembly template.▶ 2 videosIntermediate▶Introduction to Routing▶Routing: Custom Templates→02Create a piping routeAuto Route, manual routing in a 3D sketch and routing along geometry with coverings.▶ 3 videosIntermediate▶Auto-Routing▶Routing: Manual 3D Sketch▶Routing Along Geometry→03Modify an existing routeIn-line fittings, splitting a route, editing the geometry and replacing fittings.▶ 3 videosIntermediate▶Adding Piping Components In-Line▶Split Route: Angled Lines and Tees▶Editing Route Geometry→04Route tubesOrthogonal tubes with standard fittings, flexible tubing with clips and cylindrical envelopes.▶ 2 videosIntermediate▶Orthogonal Tube Routes▶Flexible Tubing→05Library and P&ID diagramRoute specifications, creating components with the wizard, importing a P&ID file.▶ 3 videosAdvanced▶Routing Library Manager: Creating Properties▶Routing Library Manager: Creating Components▶P & ID Files for Piping and Tubing→06Piping and tubing drawingsPiping drawings and tubing drawings: views, dimensions, annotations and BOMs.▶ 2 videosIntermediate▶Piping Drawings▶Tubing Drawings→To go further, Dassault Systèmes also offers the learning paths Routing: Piping 1 and Routing: Piping 2 and Routing: Tubing (on MySolidWorks).
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