Hi everyone!

I have a problem which i tried to tackle in several ways without any luck, so it would be great if anyone could help me out.

I am supposed to create models of tanks & vessels - heat exchangers, condensers, tanks, basically anything that has a shell and nozzles attached to it. I need to create it in that way, that when i create BOM it will spell out what type of material is and its description. i had several attempts which i will explain below.

Firstly, I tried multi-body part using extruding surfaces for my pipes (which i later thickened). the i removed surfaces for nozzle openings. This way i have created tank and nozzles pretty easy. TProblems with this approcah is that material description will not be as pipes, but raher only "material" or whatever is default, and manipultaion of flang sizes was rather difficult.

Second approach was using assembly and routing. The problem i had here was actually controlling the pipe and flange sizes, as well as creating nozzle openings on the shell of the tank.

Design intent is to create plenty of configurations and easily create BOM, cut-lists, and all the resto fo necessary drawings.

So not sure which way to go - assembly or multi-body part, and in the end, how to model it so it is usefull.

I am sorru if i am duplicating the question, and i would appreciate if anyone could help me with this (any links to tutorials, or anything)

Thanks