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Update existing route with new pipe data.

Question asked by Trent Westbrook on Dec 7, 2010
Latest reply on Mar 5, 2012 by Trent Westbrook

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Greetings,

I have an interesting problem I am hoping someone here might have a solution; Our VAR support has stated that there is no way to do this, but I suspect otherwise.

I have an assembly with around 200 routes already drawn. (I am working in plant design, very large assemblies) Late in the project we realized we needed certain data to show up in the BOM, and created four custom properties in all of our routing library parts. Since all flanges, elbows, etc, are direct references to the routing library, they updated perfectly. The pipe lengths did not, however.

It seems that when a route is first generated it looks at the 'pipe.sldprt' source file and pulls all the data from it then and never looks back at the file again. Since our pipe file did not have the custom properties when the routes where created, the derived pipe parts created for the route do not contain the custom properties.

My question is this: How can I get the route to re-reference the source pipe file and pull in the new custom properties?

Mark Coville Mar 5, 2012 10:56 AM

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If you open each individual route assembly delete all pipe parts just out of the feature manager tree and then edit the route and exit the route they will be updated with the new info.

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Peter De Vlieger Dec 8, 2010 2:46 AM

The only way I can think of, not that that means much, is by means of 'route segment properties' (you know - the command you can find in the RMB pop-up)

The same command that you would use if for instance you had made a route in Stainless Steel and then it's changed to be one in HDPE. If something like that happens you can change the route properties all you want but it won't make any difference for the pipe parts unless you use the aforementioned 'route segment properties'.

This does mean that you would have to alter each individual pipe part of each individual route by hand, unless you can manage to write a macro for it.

Do keep in thing in mind though, that even if you do this and it looks like it should in the feature manager then there's still no certainty that it will actually give the required result in the BOM. I would strongly suggest to test it out.

If there's a better method, then I'm all ears.

Good luck

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Alessandro Frattini Dec 8, 2010 1:12 PM

Task scheduler can help you.

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Mark Coville @ Alessandro Frattini on Mar 5, 2012 10:56 AM

If you open each individual route assembly delete all pipe parts just out of the feature manager tree and then edit the route and exit the route they will be updated with the new info.

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Trent Westbrook @ Mark Coville on Mar 5, 2012 11:06 AM

Oh man. I wish I would have thought of that two years ago.

We gave up on using Solidworks Routing for process installations, and use Plant3D instead.

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Peter De Vlieger Dec 8, 2010 2:46 AM
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The only way I can think of, not that that means much, is by means of 'route segment properties' (you know - the command you can find in the RMB pop-up)

The same command that you would use if for instance you had made a route in Stainless Steel and then it's changed to be one in HDPE. If something like that happens you can change the route properties all you want but it won't make any difference for the pipe parts unless you use the aforementioned 'route segment properties'.

This does mean that you would have to alter each individual pipe part of each individual route by hand, unless you can manage to write a macro for it.

Do keep in thing in mind though, that even if you do this and it looks like it should in the feature manager then there's still no certainty that it will actually give the required result in the BOM. I would strongly suggest to test it out.

If there's a better method, then I'm all ears.

Good luck
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Alessandro Frattini Dec 8, 2010 1:12 PM
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- Mark Coville @ Alessandro Frattini on Mar 5, 2012 10:56 AM
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  If you open each individual route assembly delete all pipe parts just out of the feature manager tree and then edit the route and exit the route they will be updated with the new info.
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  - Trent Westbrook @ Mark Coville on Mar 5, 2012 11:06 AM
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    Oh man. I wish I would have thought of that two years ago.
    
    We gave up on using Solidworks Routing for process installations, and use Plant3D instead.
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