I am creating a filtration system skid and have several manifolds of various sizes with up to 12 take-offs on each one. It becomes rather tedious and time consuming to drop 12 tees, then 12 reducers (especially eccentric reducers), then 12 elbows, then 12 flanges... etc...
Am I missing something or is it still this labour intensive?
Thanks,
Ian
Thank you Peter,
It is too bad that routing parts cannot be patterned. It would reduce quite some leg-work where maifolds have many take-offs.
Building off Peter's suggestion, would this work?
1) Make an assembly with the fittings positioned where you want, but with no route. You would be able to use patterns this way. Also, you could even have a basic assembly that you copy or pack and go as a starting point.
2) Build your route by using the add fitting command and sketching between fittings.
I dont have routing ATM but when i was using it i patterned routing parts all the time. the only thing is that the patterning has to be done at the pipe sub assembly level, not the top level assembly. can u post a screen shot?
Tony,
I can't believe that I overlooked that solution. Of course one can use pattern on routing. It would even produce a correct BOM.
Why would you advise to do it on the pipe sub assembly level? I can see no difference between doing it on that level or one higher?
Here are some screen shots to explain better i hope.
the first image shows the error if you try to select a routing part from the top level.
the second shows the pipe assembly opened alone.
the third shows a completed
Tony,
I had no problem doing it on the top level. The only thing to keep in mind is that one has to select a piece of pipe, any piece of pipe will do, and not a fitting.
You only get the error message when clicking an elbow, flange, T, etc.
In other words, select it with a crossing window and you'll see that you'll get lots of error message, for each fitting an error message but in the end it will still work because you also selected the pipe.
Thanks Peter guess i never tried selecting that way b4!
Ian,
A bit late with a responds but... have you considered working with a sub-ASM with ACpoints instead of Cpoints of each fitting.
Of course this will only work if each take-off, or at least he majority of them, are identical. At least then I would imagine that you only have to combine one set of T, reducer, elbow and flange which you then just drop in 12 times.
The only thing to keep in mind is how many variations do you need depending on sizes as well as actual config changes (e.g.: different kind of elbow or direction of elbow) if it would be preferable to make seperate files or how much you could combine in 1 file with lots of configs.