piping & tubing basic course using solidworks

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Solidworks Piping Basic Course

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Overview

Design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid

systems, and process plant piping by using Solidworks.

With SolidWorks Premium, designers can:• Create piping system designs with butt welded, socket welded, threaded, and other connections• Create flexible or rigid tubing lines• Automate placement of supports and hangers for all lines• Generate bend tables for tube routes to support manufacturing• Calculate cut lengths for all pipe and tube runs• Auto-route pipe/tube paths through the design that can be easily edited according to assembly and service needs• Ensure minimum bend radii in flexible tube systems• Output PCF files for use with ISOGEN® piping software• Export tubing/piping bend tables to CNC benders• Automatically generate piping/tubing manufacturing drawings from your 3D models• Import logical connection information design from SolidWorks Solution Partner products• Automatically create bill of material (BOM), cut lists, bend tables, and other manufacturing documentation• Access a CAD library of piping and tubing components• Use the Routing Library Manager (RLM) wizard to guide creation of custom piping/tubing components


Piping Isometric

Piping Isometric

The model given below is the Isometric Drawing. The article teaches the basic steps involved in preparing Isometric drawing in an Solidworks 2012 Software


Guidelines to build the Routing

• Define starting point• Select pipe stock• Create path• Choose and place parts• Remove Part• Move Part• Save the database


Solidworks “Routing - Pipes and Tubes”

In Solidworks “Routing - Pipes and Tubes” is one of the Add-Ins.

To enter Solidworks 2012

Start All Programs Solidworks 2012 Solidworks 2012 x64 Edition (CLICK)



• To begin, activate the SolidWorks Routing Add-In.• Tools / Options, Add-Ins



• To Enter “SolidWorks Routing”• Office Products (Tab) SolidworksRouting – Piping tab will be displayed



The Basic Piping Icons are shown below. Solidworks Routing will be activate only in Assembly mode.



Start Routing

Create a sub- assembly below the main assembly.Save the sub-assembly .



After saving the sub-assembly, we want to select the connection point (C Point) as shown below.

To create a c-point we need to select a vertex or sketch point and a plane or face or the end face of a cylinder to define start of the route. Always this message will be pop-up in a message box.

Select a pipe data



Hold the point and drag to increase the length of the route or enter the exact

length shown in parameters.

Enter 1000”

Start Point



Select the point and draw the line perpendicular to Y vertex



After exit from the line, automatically corner updated to radius.

Note: Corners are controlled by updating “Routing Properties” ==> “Bends – Elbows”.



Adding fitting to spool pieceNote: Always line want to be in edit mode while adding fittings items.



Press Tab button to rotate/flip the fittings items while placing. After placing the concentric reducer, the pipe automatically updated to the reducing size.

After placing all fittings, come out of the edit mode.



Exporting the pipe/tube data to generate Isometric drawings.

Right click on the piping spool assem and export pipe/tube data

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