About the Make Adaptive Command in the Reuse Workflow

In the reuse workflow, the Make Adaptive command applies to secondary occurrences of exclusive tube and pipe components. It creates a new adaptive primary occurrence. Associated conduit parts are made adaptive into new primary occurrences under the new location. Fittings themselves are reusable standard library parts from the Content Center so they still reference the unique local instance in the Content Center files location.

When you apply the Make Adaptive command to a run, if a route primary occurrence originally has secondary occurrences, the new parent run should contain the same structure and non-adaptive route occurrences reference the new adaptive route.

• Secondary occurrences in an assembly pattern cannot be made adaptive until they are independent of the pattern.
• If the new primary occurrence contains errors, all error-prone constraints are deleted.

What occurrences can the Make Adaptive command apply to?

The Make Adaptive command typically applies to non-adaptive secondary occurrences of the following tube and pipe components:

• primary runs assembly when a top assembly does not contain any other adaptive primary runs assembly.
• Runs
• Rigid piping and bent tubing routes
• Flexible hose assemblies when the style has Use Subassembly on, or flexible hosing routes with Use Subassembly off. The Use Subassembly setting of a flexible hosing style is defined on the Tube & Pipe Styles dialog box, Fittings tab.

Each assembly can only have one driving occurrence of the primary runs assembly so the Make Adaptive command is available in the reuse workflow only when:

• The original occurrence of the primary runs assembly is removed from within an assembly so only secondary occurrences exist. You can make only one secondary occurrence into the primary occurrence.
• A secondary occurrence is placed into another assembly that does not contain the primary runs assembly.

How do the tube and pipe styles respond?

If no existing tube and pipe style matches the style name used by the new route driving occurrence, it is automatically added to the primary runs assembly. Otherwise, when the primary runs assembly already contains a style in the same name:

• If style criteria are identical, the new route changes to use the same style in the primary runs assembly.
• If style criteria are different, a new style is automatically created in the name of the existing style with a suffix of _Copy. The new route uses the new style.

How do pre-existing assembly constraints respond?

Standard Autodesk Inventor assembly constraints may have been added to rigidly position a secondary occurrence of tube and pipe components. After the Make Adaptive command is applied, such constraints are suppressed. You can check in the Model browser and determine whether or not you want to keep or remove them.

It is recommended that you make secondary occurrences adaptive before applying assembly constraints.