Piping · Lesson 1: Get started with Routing

Lesson goal

Activate Routing, understand where pipes and fittings are stored, and start from an assembly template that follows company standards.

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2 videos

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1 exercise

Intermediate

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Prerequisite: Assemblies learning path

1. Watch the videos

Dassault Systèmes videos hosted on MySolidWorks: they open in a new tab and a free account is enough. Watch them in order.

Routing is an add-in you need to activate: it adds the Piping, Tubing and Electrical menus.

Each route lives in a route subassembly that contains the route's 3D sketch, the pipes and the fittings.

Components come from the routing library, whose settings are loaded from the Routing Library Manager.

A custom routing assembly template sets the drafting standard, units and document properties once and for all.

Tip

Create your routing template before your first real project: changing units or the standard afterwards on dozens of routes takes much longer.

Set up your routing environment:

activate the Routing add-in and locate the Piping and Tubing menus
from the supplied routing template, create a template in millimeters with your drafting standard
save it and set it as the template to use for new routes

✓To check: A new route created afterwards opens in millimeters with your standard, with no manual setting.

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