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The Piping & Tubing Design Guide for SolidWorks Routing 2011 By: Wes Mosier 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 This Page Intentionally Left Blank II 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 SolidWorks Routing 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide This manual is meant for instructional use only, and is in no way intended to replace the SolidWorks Routing help files or the SolidWorks Manual In case of conflict, always refer to the documentation supplied with your SolidWorks license SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation SolidWorks Corporation is a Dassault Systemes S.A company SolidWorks Corporation 300 Baker Avenue Concord, Massachusetts 01742 USA This reference manual was prepared by: Wes Mosier III 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011 - Wes Mosier All Rights Reserved This publication, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form, by any method, for any purpose This includes, but is not limited 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of Contents Chapter – The Basics How the Routing Package Works……………………………………………… 1-1 Cpoints & Rpoints………………………………………………………… 1-1 Design Tables………………………………………………………… 1-2 The 3D Sketch…………………………………………………………… 1-4 Assemblies, Subassemblies, Parts & Routing Files……………… … 1-6 Routing Templates……………………………………………………… 1-8 How They All Work Together…………………………………………… 1-9 Routing Options and Settings…………………………………………………… 1-11 Chapter - Required Features of Components Cpoints & Rpoints (What are they?)…………………………………………… 2-1 Pipe…………………………………………………………………………… … 2-5 Tube…………………………………………………………………… 2-8 Elbows…………………………………………………………… ……………… 2-12 Tees………………………………………………………………….…………… 2-16 Flanges……………………………………………………….…………………… 2-17 Reducers…………………………………………………………….…………… 2-17 Other Components (Valves, Filters, Strainers, etc…)…………….………… 2-18 Chapter – Starting a Route (creating a routing subassembly) Things to consider before starting……………………………………………… 3-1 The Design Library……………………………………………………………… 3-2 Adding a starting component to the assembly………………………………… 3-4 The Route Properties Dialog…………………………………………………… 3-5 Chapter – Routing Pipe Route Properties/Settings………………………………………………………… 4-1 Routing Straight Pipe With Elbows……………………………………………… 4-3 Routing Bent Pipe………………………………………………………………… 4-7 Ending Your Route………………………………………………………………… 4-10 Creating Custom Elbows (when you exit the sketch)………………………… 4-11 Piping Routing Files……………………………………………………………… 4-14 Chapter – Routing Tubing Route Properties/Settings………………………………………………………… 5-1 Routing Rigid Tube……………………………………………………………… 5-3 Routing Flexible Tubing 5-4 Ending Your Route…………………………………………………………………5-6 Tubing Routing Files……………………………………………………………… 5-7 VII 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Chapter – Editing a Routing Subassembly Adding a Tee……………………………………………………………………… 6-1 Adding Components to Your Route……………………………………………… 6-6 Using Split Points to Add Components to Your Route……………………… 6-11 Removing Pipe or Tube Between Two Fittings……………………………… 6-13 Adding Back Removed Pipe or Tube…………………………………………… 6-15 Adding a Reducer to Your Piping Route………………………………………… 6-16 Changing the Route Properties………………………………………………… 6-24 Changing the Line Size/Schedule of Your Pipe/Tubing Route….………… 6-26 Replacing Routing Components ……………………………………………… 6-29 Chapter – Miscellaneous Routing Procedures Pipe Penetrations………………………………………………………………… 7-1 Adding Mounting Brackets & Pipe Supports…………………………………… 7-3 Forming Subassemblies………………………………………………………… 7-10 Dissolving Subassemblies…………………………………………………… … 7-10 Using “Find References” to Relocate Pipe/Tubing Files………… ………… 7-11 Bolted Connections……………………………………………………….……… 7-12 Adding Branch Fittings (Weld-O-Lets & Bosses)……………………………… 7-13 Chapter – Creating Custom Routing Components Creating Custom Components (Valves, Strainers, etc…)…………………… 8-1 Cpoints………… …………………………………………………………8-2 Rpoints…………………………………………………………………… 8-4 The Vertical Axis………………………………………………………… 8-6 Creating Custom Flanges & Start Parts………………………………………… 8-7 Chapter – Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route Creating a Routing Subassembly……………………………………………… 9-2 ACpoints & ARpoints……………………………………………………………… 9-4 Inserting the Subassembly Into Your Route…………………………………… 9-6 Chapter 10 – Design Tables What Exactly Does the Design Table Do?…………………………… ……… 10-1 Adding Custom Properties…………………………………………………………10-2 Pulling the Data Out of the Design Table & Into My Drawing………………….10-4 Chapter 11 – The Drawing How to Crop Pipe So It Looks Like Pipe………………………………………… 11-1 Dimensioning Pipe & Tubing…………………………………………………… 11-2 The Bill of Materials……………………………………………………………… 11-3 VIII 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 About This Manual: The information provided in this manual is meant as a supplement to the online help files and documentation provided with your copy of SolidWorks 2008 and the SolidWorks 2008 Routing add-on In case of conflicting/missing information, always consult the documentation and help files supplied with your copy of SolidWorks About the Author: Wes Mosier, CSWA, CSWP, CSWE Wes Mosier has been involved in the mechanical design, architecture, structural and process piping industries for over nineteen years as a Cad Engineering Design Drafter He has written procedural manuals and technical documentation for large and small companies over the past 12 years, and has taught both lecture and hands on courses at private firms and technical conventions, including break-out classes at SolidWorks World Wes Mosier has been using the SolidWorks Piping/Routing add-on for over 10 years while employed by engineering, fabrication and design firms in California “I wrote this manual to give the users of SolidWorks Routing a heads-up approach to learning the basics of the tubing and piping package Individuals who follow this document can gain a clear understanding of the fundamentals behind how the program works, and can adapt these procedures to suit their specific company needs Simply put, this manual was written by a user, for the user.” -Wes Mosier Special thanks to my wife Kelly, for putting up with my late nights and for all the encouragement IX 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 This Page Intentionally Left Blank X 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Creating a Routing Subassembly You can use any SolidWorks part files or subassemblies to create an assembly to insert into a route The only requirement is that the Cpoints and Rpoints that will be in the new subassembly file, are already on the parts that you bring into the assembly For example: I want to create an assembly to bring into my route that contains a flanged valve, a flange on either side, and all of the nuts and bolts The first step is to start a new assembly file and save it For this example, I will call it “ValveAssem01.sldasm” The first step is to bring in the 4” flanged valve that I want to use and mate it into my assembly so it is defined in space Next I will drag and drop two 4”, 150# Weld Neck Flanges straight from the Feature Library, then mate them to the valve so they are fully constrained Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route 9-2 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Now bring in some parts of threaded studs and nuts Mate these to the weld neck flanges, and the valve’s flanges You not need to bring in sixteen studs, and 32 nuts Just add enough for one bolted connection on each set of flanges To make it easier, simply use “Component Pattern” to add the rest of the nuts and studs to the assembly All that is left is to tell SolidWorks that this is a routing component.… I mean… assembly If this was a part file, you would add Cpoints and Rpoints to tell SolidWorks where the pipe will enter/exit the part Since this is an assembly, we need to add ACpoints and ARpoints (get it… ACpoints… [A is for Assembly C is for Connection]) Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route 9-3 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 ACpoints & ARpoints ACpoints & ARpoints are the assembly level version of a part’s Rpoint and Cpoints They are added similarly to the way Cpoints and Rpoints are added to a part You can only add ACpoints and ARpoints onto EXISTING Cpoints and Rpoints INSIDE of the parts you brought into your assembly Look closely at the valve and the flanges below The flanges contain Cpoints (so you can insert the flange part into a route) and the valve contains an Rpoint that I added so I can create the ARpoint (The Cpoints and Rpoints are located in the parts themselves, not in this assembly.) Select one of the Cpoints, and pick “Connection Point” from the “Routing” toolbar The Feature Manager will now display the standard “Connection Point” properties with the exception that all of the options are “grayed out.” All of the settings for the ACpoint are defined by the Cpoint in the part file So all of the data is transferred from the part’s cpoint, into the ACpoint Select “Okay” to create the ACpoint and continue Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route 9-4 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Repeat the above steps to create the ACpoint on the other flange Now select the Rpoint in the middle of the valve, and pick “Route Point” from the “Routing” toolbar There are no options to set here either, so select “Okay” to continue You should now have an assembly that contains a valve, flanges, all of the necessary nuts and studs, two ACpoints, and one ARpoint The assembly is now ready to be inserted into a routing subassembly Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route 9-5 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Inserting the Subassembly Into Your Route Once you have a subassembly with ACpoints and ARpoints, you can insert it into a routing subassembly like you would any other routing component Simply start a new route or open an existing one For this example, I’ll just create a new route by starting a new assembly, saving it, then drag in a 4”, 150# Weld Neck Flanges straight from the Design Library onto the origin Next, I’ll drag the pipe out a bit, then add a “Split Entity Point” onto the middle of the line I then select the “Split Entity Point”, and from the top pull-down menu I select “Insert→Component→Existing Part/Assembly” and select the file ValveAssem01.sldasm that I just finished making When I hit OK, the assembly is inserted into my route, onto the split entity point Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route 9-6 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 The assembly will now appear in my drawing’s bill of materials as multiple parts and not just one big part I not have to insert the assembly onto a split entity point, I can also insert it onto the endpoint of a sketch line, and then continue the route from the other end if I so choose I can also go back into the valve assembly and add gaskets, or multiple configurations for high-resolution (more memory, better looking) or lower resolution (less memory, nuts, studs, gaskets not shown) for use in the working environment while I model the rest of the systems High resolution for presentation & drawings Low resolution (no nuts & bolts) for working model Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route 9-7 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 This page intentionally left blank Inserting Subassemblies Into Your Route 9-8 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Chapter 10 – Design Tables Design tables (as mentioned in Chapter 1-The Basics) are nothing more than spreadsheet style representations of the variables in configurations This section will briefly cover some of the properties that design tables control that affect how your route will react and what values you can use in the bill of materials For information on creating, editing, or manipulating design tables, please refer to the standard SolidWorks documentation Understanding how design tables function is a valuable asset to the routing package What Exactly Does the Design Table Do? The Design Table that is linked to a routing component such as a pipe file or valve basically does only two things It controls all of the properties for that part in the route such as Cpoint information and feature dimensions It holds information that can be put into the drawing annotations and tables For example, the following design table is for a typical tee part Column “A” contains all of the names for the various configurations Column “B” contains the part number used in the bill of materials Column “C” is the pipe identifier that SolidWorks uses for routing data Column “D” is used in the sketches to build the part feature Column “E” is the actual outside diameter of the part used to build the feature Column “F” is the wall thickness used to build the feature Column “G” is the inner diameter which is used to build the part feature Other columns can be added to contain information such as Specification, Material, Supplier, weight per foot, etc… All of this data can be used in the drawing for the bill of materials, annotations, etc… Design Tables 10-1 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Adding Custom Properties Adding custom properties to the design table is as simple as adding a column to the worksheet, assigning it a name, and adding the data to each configuration under it For example, if I wanted to add properties for description, supplier and lead time, to the design table for the custom “base” elbow that I made in chapter 8, I would only need to add the columns for each of those properties and name those columns $PRP@Description, $PRP@Supplier, and $PRP@LeadTime Newly added columns By editing the design table, and adding the columns with names that have the “$PRP@” prefix, when I exit the design table, SolidWorks will add these properties to the “Configuration Specific File Properties” of the part I can now add a bill of materials to my drawing and place these properties into it Pulling the Data Out of the Design Table & Into My Drawing Extracting the data from the design table for use in the bill of materials is a very simple process in SolidWorks 2004 The image below shows a drawing I made using the custom elbow file I made in Chapter I have pulled the custom property “Description” that I added to the elbow’s design table, and put it into the bill of materials In this section, I will show you how to extract the data from the design table and include it in the bill of materials Design Tables 10-2 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 On the drawing, hover over the top of the farthest-right column in the bill of materials Right-mouse-click when the pointer symbol changes to this: When you right-click, select “Insert → Column Right” from the menu (See image below for detail) Design Tables 10-3 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 A new blank column will be added to the right of the “Description” column A box will appear over the new column asking what properties you want to display Now repeat the above steps, adding another new column to the right of “LeadTime” and make this new column link to the property “Supplier” I now have all three of the custom properties that I added to my custom elbow file in the bill of materials Experiment with the design table, and custom properties to see how the bill of materials reacts Just remember to add the “$PRP@” prefix before every property name in the design table, or SolidWorks won’t know what to with it Design Tables 10-4 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Chapter 11 – The Drawing Now that you’ve routed your piping or tubing, it is time to sit back and enjoy the benefits of parametric modeling The SolidWorks drawing package allows you to quickly and easily create spool and assembly drawings of the piping/tubing files For information on creating or editing drawings, please refer to the standard SolidWorks documentation Understanding all of the commands and tools of the drawing package will allow you to create high quality production drawings How to Crop Pipe So It Looks Like Pipe You may have noticed that when you use the crop command on a cylindrical object, the edges of the cropped piece make the part look square Here is a little trick that will enable you to get that “cylindrical cut” that looks oh so slick Standard Crop Enhanced Crop Okay, this process is very simple All that is required is that when you draw the cropping boundary, that you add a “spline” over the pipe Then add another curve after you create the crop Here’s an example: 1) In a viewport, draw the cropping boundary like you would normally 2) Now add a spline where the pipe meets the crop rectangle, and trim the rectangle The Drawing 11-1 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 3) Select the sketch lines, and crop the view 4) Now sketch an arc from the pointed end to the midpoint, and you’re done Dimensioning Pipe & Tubing Dimensioning pipe and tubing on a drawing is relatively simple, but I want to mention a few of the different ways to add dimensions to the drawing Pipe is normally dimensioned the following two ways: 1) To a face (end of pipe, face of flange, etc ) 2) To the Centerline (of pipe, components, etc ) Dimensioning to faces with SolidWorks is quite easy, since you can see and select the faces Adding dimensions to centerlines is also pretty simple, because you can just view the Temporary Axes, and dimension to those But you don’t always want to show ALL of the axes on a drawing when you print, so you turn off the temporary axes, and suddenly your dimensions appear to be in the center of the component, but since there aren’t centerlines, the drafting standard is no longer used The Drawing 11-2 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 One way around this, is to display the temporary axes, dimension to them, then draw construction lines over the top of the axes for display purposes Now when you turn off the temporary axes, the dimensions appear to be to the centerlines In reality, they are actually to the temporary axes of the part Now if the part changes, so does the dimension The Bill of Materials Adding the bill of materials to the drawing is relatively simple, but I would like to comment on a couple of issues you may encounter when adding one to a routing drawing The Drawing 11-3 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.0 Piping/Tubing Template One of the strongest features of the routing package, is the ability to add cut lengths of pipe/tube to the bill of materials When you add a bill of materials to a routing drawing, you have to ability to choose the old “Excel Based Bill of Materials” or the new, updated, easier to use, wonderful new table style SolidWorks provides a piping template for use with the old Excel based bom, but not with the new table style In order to add cut-lengths to the table style bill of materials, you will need to add a column to the table, and select “SWPipeLength” as the Custom Property that drives the column This is easy to do, and only takes a moment to add See the documentation provided with SolidWorks for more information on customizing the Bill of Materials Pipe/Tubing Cut Lengths You will notice that the bill of materials provides the cut lengths for each length of pipe/tubing you route for bill of materials that have a column with the value “SWPipeLength” This is a really nice feature to have for piping since each piece of pipe is a separate part number This makes it easier to fabricate Tubing works the same When you route a long tubing system with lots of breaks in the tube for valves, connectors, etc… SolidWorks will give you one separate part for each individual section of tube In reality, you only want to know the approximate length of all the tubing required for the assembly The way to this is to add up all of the lengths of tubing, then hide all of the tubing parts in the bill of materials except one, double-click on the cell with the cutlength, and manually change the value to the total length of all the tube Flexible Tubing Cut Lengths If you route flexible tubing using a spline, you will notice that the bill of materials updates with the exact length of tubing routed What happens if you have a hose on a piece of machinery that pivots? When you change to different positions, the length of the spline changes In the real world, the tubing would just flex and bend It would not shorten and lengthen To solve this problem in the bill of materials, simply double-click on the cell that has the tubing length, and enter a new length of the hose/tubing that you want to stay fixed This way, as your model moves, and the spline grows and shortens, the bill of materials stays constant Just remember to update the bill of materials manually if you make design changes to the length of the spline The Drawing 11-4 [...]... called SolidWorks Routing If you do not see SolidWorks Routing in the list, then you either do not have SolidWorks Premium” edition, or for some reason, the Routing Add-In was not installed when you originally installed SolidWorks Contact your reseller for more information on either of these two cases By checking the box to the left of the SolidWorks Routing name, you will activate the add-in for. .. file, the base pipe file, the size/type configurations, and the Routing Files See also: Chapter 4 – Routing Pipe Chapter 5 – Routing Tubing Basics 1-1 1 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.2 Routing Options and Settings There are several customizable options and user settings associated with the Routing Package This is a brief explanation of their functions The Routing Options Page is located on the. ..2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.2 Chapter 1 – The Basics A quick note about the name: Throughout this manual, I will refer to SolidWorks Routing as both SolidWorks Routed Systems & SolidWorks Routing In the early days of the software, it was originally called SolidWorks Piping, then changed to SolidWorks Routing when the electrical enhancements were added The current “official” name is SolidWorks. .. nearest outside surface of the pipe, not the centerline When you are editing the route and place a dimension, you can switch to the “Other” tab and change the setting on the fly If you created the route with insulation and check the box marked “Include covering thickness” then SolidWorks will dimension to the outside of the insulation instead Basics 1-1 8 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.2 Component Rotation... menu bar You will not need all of these toolbars to route piping and tubing Some of the toolbars contain electrical routing tools, and some of the toolbars are simply smaller versions of the larger ones Basics 1-2 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.2 How the Routing Package Works At first glance, SolidWorks Routing would seem to be a very complex, hard to understand add-in Although it is considered an... of the text for connection and route points If the slider is to the far left, the text is very small, but you can still select the CPoint and Rpoints Basics 1-1 9 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.2 The image below left shows the result of the slider set at 1, the image below right shows value set to 10 Piping / Tubing Create Custom Fittings: If this box is checked, SolidWorks will allow the creation... cover them all in Chapter 4 – Routing Pipe Once you are finished sketching the route, exit the sketch, and SolidWorks will populate the route with elbows and create the Virtual Routing Files that correspond to the sizes of pipe you routed in the 3D sketch The default file name of each of these files is taken from the Pipe Identifier field in the Design Table of the size/type of pipe you routed, the route... reseller, and they will provide you with all of the necessary information They can also tell you about all of the additional benefits and features available with the Premium package To see which type of SolidWorks you currently have installed, open SolidWorks, and click “Help” on the top menu bar, then “About” towards the bottom of the drop-down Your type of SolidWorks will be shown here Basics 1-1 2011 Piping. .. Library I then right-clicked on the tubing Cpoint and started a “Flexible” tubing route Basics 1-1 3 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.2 With the Option Box UNCHECKED, I then dropped a PClip into the route while I was editing it As you can see by the image below, my route hasn’t changed, except that now I have a clip inserted into the assembly If I go back into the Routing Options by selecting “Tools-Options”... own hold-downs, u-bolts, clips, etc for use in piping and tubing routes Basics 1-1 4 2011 Piping & Tubing Design Guide v1.2 Always Use Default Document Template For Routes: If his box is checked, SolidWorks will grey out the option for selecting a Routing Template file when you start a new route (see image below) The "browse" box is unselectable if the “Always Use Default Document Template For Routes”