Flange to Flange Connection within the same Route Assembly

Concerning Cpoint2 and Rpoint2 :

You have two options, the easy one is indeed to make the 20K a seperate part. However I can understand the reluctance to do that because what if you have to change from a 10K to a 20K. You can do it by replace fitting but it's a tad more of a hassle.

The more intricate one is constructing your part in such a manner that you still have only 1 Cpoint and 1 Rpoint but that there position is determined in such a manner that they are still in the correct position no matter if a raised face or not.

Having more then the required Cpoints and/or Rpoints, no matter if surpressed or not, does screw up the routing functionality.

Try this, make a copy of your flange. Delete the Cpoint2 en Rpoint2 and see if now the flange behaves as it should, and as you expect, when using in a routing.

Concerning Designtable

The only thing that I notice in a glance was that you aren't using a $prp@description , which surprised me because how are you going to populate the BOM?

Concerning specification@cpoint

In the design table of the pipe add a column called $prp@Specification. In this column you can use letters-symbols-numbers.

In other words you can have one pipe.prt that has all the sizes that you need in all the different schedules or SDR class or material or whatever.

Not forgetting that the $prp@Pipe Identifier has to be unique for each and every configuration. This is vitally important no matter what.

 

Secondly, to the design table of the fittings you add a column for each Cpoint in the format Specification@Cpointn (with n being the number of the Cpoint)

Now if you make sure that the data in that column matches the data in the column of the pipe then you'll be able to achieve the result you were aiming for as long as you don't forget to check the mark in the parameter area when you start a new pipe.

 

In the screenshot you'll notice the 'Use schedule' check mark box. You have to read this as 'Use specification' because you can use whatever as a specification. For instance we use stainless steel piping in both 304 and 316 and we use the specification box to make it so that it automatically reduces the selection to the appropiate pipe. In HDPE piping we use it for the SDR class.

Now keep in mind that it will offer you the preference but one will still be able to alter it to a different one (for instance it will still mention SDR11 if you work with SDR17 but the default will be SDR17) but then one gets a warning to notify that you go against the pre-selected specification. It works very nicely. Just a pity that NOBODY ever told us and we had to figure it out ourselves.

 

This works so well that if you use a Concertric Reducer and give the different sizes a different schedule then the pipe that gets made automatically past the reducer will adhere to the schedule as determined by the corresponding Cpoint, or in other words if you decrease the size then the pipe that gets drawn will indeed be in the higher schedule and vice versa.

For the rest, read, experiment, dig into the helpfiles and bother your VAR. 

Routing is great, when it works as it should, but it takes a while to get to grips with it.

It does ask for lots of experimenting and learning.

Have a nice one

Peter