OK, I'm new at this routing thing so be gentle… So I'm sketching a route and I come to a point where I want to tee instead of elbow. I make the turn in one direction and then erase the fillet and go in the other and apply the tee. It seems to route correctly but there is this lingering error that I cannot get rid of, any ideas?
If the elbow is still on the feature tree, delete it. If it is still there send the issue to your VAR. I don't see where you did anything wrong.
The offending elbow doesn't show up in the tree… I guess I could try my VAR but it doesn’t seem that anyone is an expert at this thing. I've signed up for the routing class every month for the past year and it always gets cancelled because of lack of attendees.
I am assuming that you are running SW 2010?? I am still on SW 2009 and could not check your route on my system. But if you post your model on this forum I'm sure someone will give you an opinion on the cause. But in my opinion it is a bug and you should send it to your VAR, who can then send it to SolidWorks.
My workaround would be to delete the offending routing assembly and just do it over with a tee instead of an elbow.
Perhaps I miss understood you but if you first have placed an elbow but want to change it to a tee I think the best course of action is
1) do a crossing window across the area of the elbow and delete all in it
2) lenghten the original line (if he main trunk contineous that way or draw a line perpendicular to it if if the main trunk is that way
3) in case of the former , create the side branch by drawing a line perpendicular
4) drag and drop a T from your library on the sketch T and it should snap to it in the right size and correct direction
5) if you haven't drawn the side branch yet then before releasing it you can rotate the T with the tab-button
Now in your case what has happened, I think, is that there's still an entity left so that the program thinks that there should be an elbow
Do a crossing window across the general area and delete all
the worst that can happen is that you lose your T and have to reapply it
Well, I'm trying to delete the section in question so I can replace it, but it crashes every time…
I am not certain, but from the picture it looks like you only have two lines intersecting at the tee. You can insert a vertex on the straight line so that three lines meet at the intersection point. If it is three lines already, make sure you don't have a fourth line coincident also. It looks like the pipe goes through the tee instead of stopping at the tee.
There did seem to be multiple lines in the route sketch, which I'm not sure how that happened but with some editing I got them out. Opening the pipe sub-assembly helped with the crashing problem, although with the hardware I have, that should not be a problem. Thanks all for the input…
Perhaps I miss understood you but if you first have placed an elbow but want to change it to a tee I think the best course of action is
1) do a crossing window across the area of the elbow and delete all in it
2) lenghten the original line (if he main trunk contineous that way or draw a line perpendicular to it if if the main trunk is that way
3) in case of the former , create the side branch by drawing a line perpendicular
4) drag and drop a T from your library on the sketch T and it should snap to it in the right size and correct direction
5) if you haven't drawn the side branch yet then before releasing it you can rotate the T with the tab-button
Now in your case what has happened, I think, is that there's still an entity left so that the program thinks that there should be an elbow
Do a crossing window across the general area and delete all
the worst that can happen is that you lose your T and have to reapply it