To Show and Edit Violations in a Rigid Route

When you edit rigid piping routes, bent tubing routes, and derived route violations may occur. With the run or route active, use the Show Violations command to identify all violations in a route and then make appropriate changes.

1. Activate the run or rigid route in error conditions.

2. In the Model browser, right-click the route and select Show Violations.

   The Show Violations dialog box displays a list of violations on the route.

3. Click to highlight the corresponding problematic section in the graphics window to identify the violations.

4. Click OK.

5. Make appropriate edits, for instance, modify the style criteria, reposition route points and segments, edit dimensions, and add or remove constraints.

   When all violations are corrected, the route node in the Model browser automatically changes to the normal state.

Populating routes and runs use the library fittings and conduit parts in the Content Center so you must configure the Content Center correctly. Otherwise, you may fail to retrieve the library data to update the populated routes. In addition, if geometric constraints or dimensions make the route sketch over-constrained, you cannot continue before fixing the route sketch.

Once the system succeeds to resolve the route edits, violations may still occur. The Model browser hence represents an error icon beside the route. With the run or route active, you can right-click the route and use Show Violations to identify a list of error conditions. For instance:

• The route does not conform to the style criteria such as the minimum segment length, maximum segment length, and minimum bend radius.

• The route involves invalid angles. For instance, if the rigid piping route involves 45-degree elbows, but it is not included in the style criteria, violations are flagged. If the rigid pipe route is self draining and there is a mismatch between the custom elbow and the angle of the run, violations are flagged.If the bent tubing route involves 45-degree and 90-degree directional turns but they are not bound to a tubing bend, say the default tubing bends are manually deleted, violations are flagged.

• The route involves branches.

• The route involves loops.

• The route cannot perform the rigid transformation in positional representation.

• The route is not perpendicular to the circular edge that you select to define the terminal route point.

• The gender or end treatment on the conduit part and fitting do not match. For instance, when defining a rigid piping style, in the Tube & Pipe Styles dialog box, Fittings tab, you have selected a pipe standard with the welded end treatment, as well as a 90-degree elbow standard with the threaded end treatment. Violations hence occur when a route is using this style.

  Tip: However, you can use the Connect Fittings command to accomplish the connection between two different end treatments.

• The bend radius in a rigid piping route is smaller than the nominal size of the pipe part. In this case, the segment is consumed by the bend so there is no straight part in the segment.

• The pipe segment to connect two fittings cannot satisfy the minimum or maximum engagement on either end, no matter whether the segment length decreases or increases at the specified increment. The segment increment is defined in the Tube & Pipe Styles dialog box, Size tab.

• The system dynamically resolves two sketched route points to overlap. It may occur when the included segment in the parametric region is not dimensioned.