About Tube and Pipe Component Copy and Reuse
Your design may call for an exact copy of an existing exclusive tube and pipe component to fit into a new location and be adjusted to a new position. You may also expect to apply slight changes to the tube and pipe design at a later time. Use the copy and reuse workflow to place multiple secondary occurrences and transition them to adaptive primary occurrences. It saves repetitive effort for designing a new suite of similar tube and pipe components.
The following exclusive tube and pipe components can be reused:
- 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 in the Tube & Pipe Styles dialog box, Fittings tab.
What is the typical tube and pipe component copy and reuse workflow?
In the appropriate parent tube and pipe environment, create and place one or multiple secondary occurrences.
The browser nodes of the placed secondary occurrences change accordingly. Changes on the parent primary occurrences automatically update the derived secondary occurrences.
Optionally, place assembly constraints to reposition secondary occurrences as a rigid body.
To reuse them, apply the Make Adaptive command.
If you have added positional constraints to secondary occurrences as in Step 2, they are suppressed.
Optionally, check the suppressed positional constraints in the Model browser and determine whether you want to keep or remove them.
How can I use the reuse workflow when the Make Adaptive command is applied?
When the primary runs assembly secondary occurrence is made adaptive, you can specify the location for the new primary runs assembly and determine whether or not you make all contained routes and runs adaptive.
All tube and pipe secondary occurrences can be customized with a new file name with the following exception:
- File names of conduit parts cannot be customized until the Prompt for conduit file names option is enabled in the Tube and Pipe Settings dialog box at the primary runs assembly level.
- File names of fitting parts cannot be customized until the Prompt for fitting file names (insert content as custom) option is enabled in the Tube and Pipe Settings dialog box at the primary runs assembly level.