New Flexible Hose Routes

With a flexible hose style active, click Pipe Run tab Route panel New Route to define a new hose assembly.

You use many of the same commands and guides, such as 3D Orthogonal Route and direction axes, to create hose routes and piping and tubing routes. For more information, see 3D Orthogonal Route in chapter 2.

You can insert intermediate nodes in the 3D hose spline. Valid points for intermediate flexible hose nodes are the same for rigid routes. In addition, you can select points offset from a face. For more information, see Route Points in Chapter 2. Route points created by selecting arbitrary points offset from a face are not associative and do not update to changes in the model geometry.

Note: After you finish a 3D hose spline (right-click and select Done), you can insert only intermediate nodes onto the spline.

Although flexible route fittings are typically connected to other fittings in the active route or an adjacent route, several types of points are available for selection. Valid fitting connection points include:

• A connection on other tube and pipe fittings.
• A connection on a standard Autodesk® Inventor® part that has been authored using the Tube & Pipe Authoring command, and published to the Content Center.
• The end of a tube, pipe, or hose segment.
• A circular edge on any component.