Solidworks Pipe Routing Exercise 151 

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Agreed. If the valve assembly has bolt flanges then there must be a bolt flange on the pipe. This allows the entire valve to be removed via bolts. On the other hand if the valves were welded directly to the pipe they would not have a bolt flange.

you can do that if you want to detail it to that extent but rule of thumb is the the distance to the valve is the overall pipe length and welders usually know how much they need to subtract from the segment for welding inside the flange anyway, so it is not critical. remember, the pipe sits almost all the way through the flange, hence the name "Slip On Flange"

@@hyper_active_snail we are talking about drawing that should comply with real state on site not about what welders do.

There is a good reason why all the demos of routing use the same fittings and only show simple pipe routes. If you are planning to use this in a commercial sense with fittings not part of whats supplied, youll run into all kinds of problems like not being able to edit routes, routes not populating with fittings, fittings that wont even work, and the way it creates routes is very restrictive, you cant even rename the assemblies it creates of pipes and you cant consolidate them all into a single assembly. And to top it off, your VAR will deny these issues even exist.

No you have to create parts yourself, the library of parts that come with routing is very limited. I would highly recommend not using routing, it doesnt work for me it has several bugs that prevent it from working. You are better off using 3D sketches to create your routes and weldments to create pipes, far more robust and flexible than routing.

@@richoz27 I would have to disagree. Over the past couple years i have completed a number of training courses and by no means, was the SW providers were any much help, even the elite applications engineers couldn't relay solutions to my problems in the logical and constructive way, but here we are. Anyway, you can download quite a formidable library of flanges, fittings, pipes valves and tubes directly from SW Content in SW interface, like you would with the toolbox items. there you have a vast number of components you can customize, and it is suggested that you copy the existing components and rename them within the design table to what you need them to be. When you use the routing parametric, it allows your create the BOM with exact cut list lengths, elbows and fittings and components, unlike the use of 3D sketch and Sweep along it. It is good for just a quick graphical representation, but when the time comes to manufacturing and ordering the material, you will have a lot of angry fabricators pestering you every 5min over every discrepancy under the sun on the plan that you give them. The only solid piece of guided training there is for routing is called SolidProfessor and it guides you through the basics all the way through the advanced techniques and I can tell you, I did a number of spools of complex pipe works with detailed drawings within the hour that took another designer using sweeps almost a day, as the detailing becomes out of control mess. All these examples on RU-vid are literally a joke. makes me want to start posting vids on it myself, but even now i still feel there are many discrepancies that i run into and have to seek help of an elite support applications engineers to get these things resolved. Rant over✌🤙

Hope you do, applied for a job requiring pipe routing and I'm coming from a completely different industry (consumer products), mostly plastic parts but found this type of work interesting so figured what the hell, worst they could do is say no.@@hyper_active_snail

@@ryan6530 I strongly suggest you get yourself, or ask the employer to get you, a subscription to SolidProfessor. It has explicit training Paths from SW ASSOCIATE, to Professiona and Expert along with expert training paths in CFD, FEA, 3D Printing, Advanced manufacturing design and multiple routing paths. It will be its weight in gold. It only costs about $500usd/year and it is real easy to follow and revert back to in the time of need.

drag the tee before placing it Press tab, but this will give you only 2 directions, so it is better to draw a line at the point and in the direction which you want to make a tee then drag and put the tee in that point. the tee will automatically take the line direction

Good luck with that in routing. The best way I have found to create pipe routes in solidworks is using 3d sketches and weldments to create pipe, far more robust and flexible than routing.

Thanks rico, got to give it a try.

See the Channel.

This is an example, not an actual project. The dude just demonstrates pipe routing tools.