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Piping · Lesson 6: Piping and tubing drawings

Piping drawings and tubing drawings: views, dimensions, annotations and BOMs.

Lesson goal

Produce drawings the shop and the installation team can use, for a piping network and for a single tube.

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2 videos

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1 exercise

Intermediate

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Prerequisite: Lessons 2 and 4, Drawings 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.

Piping DrawingsVideo 1▶Piping DrawingsOrthogonal views, detail views, annotations, dimensions and BOM for a network.↗ Tubing DrawingsVideo 2▶Tubing DrawingsDrawing of a tube: views, projections, centerlines, driven dimensions and BOM.↗

2. Key takeaways

1

The Routing module provides a piping drawing tool that works with the standard drawing tools.

2

The BOM lists the pipes and fittings from the route subassembly.

3

For a tube, the drawing starts from the tube part and combines several orthogonal and projected views.

4

Centerlines and driven dimensions give the lengths and angles needed for bending and installation.

Tip

Ask the shop how they read a tube drawing (dimensions on centerlines or overall) before dimensioning: a drawing dimensioned the way they work avoids bending errors.

3. Do the exercise

Using the routes from the previous lessons:

  • create the drawing of the piping network with a detail view and a BOM
  • create the drawing of a tube with two projected views
  • add centerlines and driven dimensions on the tube
✓To check: The BOM lists every pipe and fitting in the network, and all the tube lengths can be read on the drawing.

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