In drawings, tube and pipe information is treated like other parts and subassemblies. You can describe the individual pipe runs and components and detail them using normal drawing manager methods and commands, unless noted otherwise.
The two drawing properties are typically used to roll up conduit parts in the parts lists correctly. You can add them to either specific drawing documents or drawing templates:
- Conduit segment length. With an internal name of Base QTY. It specifies the length of conduit parts.
- Raw material description. With an internal name of Stock Number. It stores the raw material descriptions for conduit parts.
The following guidelines help you create tube and pipe drawings correctly:
- If you are migrating R9 or earlier tube and pipe drawing documents to the current version of Autodesk® Inventor®, determine the BOM to use.
- To document individual routes and runs, create design view representations in which you turn off the visibility of unnecessary components. Then apply them to appropriate drawing views.
- Use broken views to fit long nondescript sections of pipe on a drawing.
- Use detail views to show selected fittings.
- To dimension routes and runs correctly, recover route centerlines. To dimension unpopulated routes, you can recover route centerlines.
- Add the Pipe Length and Stock Number properties to parts lists and a Bill of Materials table.
- To create BOMs for specific routes and runs, set their BOM Structure property to Reference.