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Chutes and No Ladders – Using Inventor Professional’s Tube and Pipe For Facilities DesignMike JolicoeurField Product Manager, Factory Design Suite

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Class Summary

You have a new process going into a facility You know what equipment you need for it You have the 3D assets and have placed them There needs to be large conduits connecting things together There are pipes in proximity to my design and I want to avoid them How can I create and represent these….

Quickly Accurately Easily

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this class, you will know: When to use Inventor Tube and Pipe, (and when not to) Techniques for using Pipe Generator to create Factory Assets When to use Tube and Pipe in layout context How to create a drawing of your pipe run with a BOM

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Use Cases

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Common sites in facilities….

My design must fit under here

Connection piping must go through here

This connects two assets together

This connects an asset to a building system

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Considerations

What does the piping or ductwork represent? Is it existing building geometry? (an

obstacle you have to work around)

Is it new geometry? (new pipes that will be an obstacle for others)

Am I responsible for installing it? (does it require fab drawings and a BOM?)

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What to use?

For overall system design, Inventor is NOT the tool to use.

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What to use?

For overall system design, use Revit MEP or Plant 3D.

Rule of thumb – If the drawing requires a piping schedule, don’t use Inventor.

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What to use?

For systems component design, however, Inventor works well.

For rapidly building 3D representations Inventor works well.

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Building piping components

DEMONSTRATION

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Tips and Takeaways

Use skeletons to aid in route creation

Create your own pipe style and size accordingly

Derive the assembly before creating as an asset

Break the link!!!!

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More about pipe styles…. (Rigid Piping)

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More about pipe styles…. (Tubing)

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Piping or Tubing – which should I use?

• Tubing works well for creating piping that may be obstacles to work around

• It performs better as there are not components to deal with

• Piping works well for creating piping that needs a bill of material and cut list

• Piping works well in critical fit areas where the dimensions of the flanges etc may interfere

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Creating your own piping fittings

Piping fittings can be made from any Inventor part Changeable ones are iParts Simple workflow Tip… Copy one from the standard library and modify to suit

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Using the style to populate a layout

And create an installation drawing

DEMONSTRATION

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Tips and Takeaways

Make sure your assets have something to connect to

Let Inventor do the hard work

Leverage the standard library to develop your own fittings

Bills of materials are easy to get

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Questions?

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