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Inventor® 2023

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Tube and Pipe Design

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

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Exercise Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Tube and Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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Lesson: Introduction to Tube and Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Exercise: Examine a Tube and Pipe Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Chapter 2: Setup for Routes and Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Lesson: Setup for Routes and Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Exercise: Activate a Tube and Pipe Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Lesson: Placing Initial Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Exercise: Place Initial Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Chapter 3: Routes and Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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Lesson: Creating Rigid Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Exercise: Create a Simple Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Lesson: Sketching Rigid Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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Exercise: Create a Rigid Pipe Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Exercise: Create a Tube Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Exercise: Create a Self-Draining Pipe Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
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Lesson: Editing Rigid Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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Exercise: Edit Rigid Pipe Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Exercise: Edit Tube Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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Lesson: Working with Fittings in Rigid Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Exercise: Place and Edit Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Exercise: Edit Routes and Fittings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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Lesson: Flexible Hose Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

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Exercise: Create a Flexible Hose Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Exercise: Edit a Flexible Hose Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Lesson: Leveraging Routes and Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Exercise: Reuse a Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Chapter 4: Fittings and Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Lesson: Managing Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Exercise: Create a Custom Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

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Exercise: Author a Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Exercise: Publish to the Content Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Exercise: Place Library Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Lesson: Managing Library Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

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Exercise: Add a Column to a Part Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Lesson: Creating Tube and Pipe Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Exercise: Create Custom Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

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Exercise: Create Self-Draining Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

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Chapter 5: Documenting Tube and Pipe Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

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Lesson: Representing Tube and Pipe Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Exercise: Create Model States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Lesson: Documenting Routes and Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Exercise: Document Routes and Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

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Lesson: Exporting Tube and Pipe Design Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Exercise: Export Tube and Pipe Design Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

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 Introduction

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The Autodesk® Inventor® 2023: Tube and Pipe Design learning guide is designed for use in Authorized
Training Centers (ATC) locations, corporate training settings, and other classroom settings. Although

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this courseware is designed for instructor-led courses, you can also use it for self-paced learning.
This introduction covers the following topics:
■ Course Objectives

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Prerequisites
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features and functionality, refer to the Help in the software.

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Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
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Document tube and pipe designs through the creation of 2D drawings and parts lists and export
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This learning guide is designed for experienced users of the Autodesk Inventor software. The
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guide, or have an equivalent understanding of the Autodesk Inventor user interface and working
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 Using This Learning Guide
The lessons are independent of each other. However, it is recommended that you complete these
lessons in the order that they are presented unless you are familiar with the concepts and functionality
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■ Lessons - Usually two or more lessons in each chapter.
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learned. Each exercise contains step-by-step procedures and graphics to help you complete the
exercise successfully.

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Downloading and Installing the Exercise Files

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The Exercise Files page in this learning guide contains a link and instructions to download and install
all of the data required to complete the exercises.

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Setting Up the Project File

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Most users work on several projects at a time, and each project might consist of a number of files. You

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guide has a project file that stores the paths to all the files that are related to the exercises. When you
open a file, Inventor uses the paths in the current project file to locate other required files. To work on
a different project, you make a new project active in the Project Editor. Follow the instructions below
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to locate the Tube and Pipe Design project file for this courseware and make it active.
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1. Start Autodesk Inventor.

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2. On the Home page, select (Projects and Settings) > Settings or you can also click on
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(Projects) in the Quick Access Toolbar at the top of the interface.

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3. At the bottom of the Projects dialog box, click Browse.

Browse to C:\Autodesk Inventor 2023 Tube and Pipe Design Exercise Files.
Click Tube and Pipe Design.ipj.
Click Open.
4. Click Done to close the Projects dialog box.

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 Feedback
We always welcome feedback on the learning guides. After completing this course, if you have
suggestions for improvements or want to report an error in the learning guide or with the exercise
files, please send your comments to [email protected].

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Introduction to Tube and Pipe

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This chapter introduces you to the tube and pipe environment in the Autodesk® Inventor®
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software. Using the tube and pipe environment, you can create rigid pipe, bent tube, and flexible
hose runs between your assembly components.
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Objective
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 Lesson: Introduction to Tube and Pipe

Overview

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This lesson describes the tube and pipe environment and the creation of rigid tube, pipe, and flexible

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hose routes for fluids and gases in a machine assembly.

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The tube and pipe environment enables you to easily create and optimize tube, pipe, and hose runs,

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saving design time and streamlining the process of creating and distributing more accurate models.
Typical uses for the environment include routing fluids and gases through mechanical assemblies,

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and creating project designs using rigid tube, pipe, or flexible hose segments.
The following image shows a typical tube and pipe design in which rigid pipe, bent tubing, and
flexible hoses are used to route air and oil between components.

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Describe the purpose and characteristics of a tube and pipe design.
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■ Explain the basic steps involved in creating tube and pipe runs.

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 About Tube and Pipe Designs
The Autodesk Inventor Tube and Pipe environment includes features for setting tube and pipe styles,
adding runs and routes to mechanical assemblies or product designs, populating selected routes with
library components, and adding optional fittings. When a tube and pipe run is complete, the tube and

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pipe information can be represented in drawings and presentations.

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Definition of Tube and Pipe Designs

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Pipes, tubing, and hoses are common in a variety of machinery. You use the tube and pipe
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environment to model rigid pipe, bent tube, and flexible hose runs between assembly components.
As your design changes, the runs automatically update to match changes in the positions of related
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assembly components.
The tube and pipe environment is designed to create pipe, tube, and hose runs for industrial
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machinery. The tube and pipe environment is not intended for large process piping designs.
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 Example of a Tube and Pipe Design
In the following image, an example of how you can use tube and pipe designs to help finalize your
prototype is shown. As you can see, you can use various styles to represent your design.

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A flexible hose is routed between two components.

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A bent tube design.

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 Tube and Pipe Environment
Tools for creating tube and pipe designs are available from the assembly environment on the ribbon
through the Tube and Pipe tab, Pipe Run tab, and Route tab.

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Ribbon Tabs in the Assembly Design

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As you switch design tasks and environments, the tabs and panels on the ribbon change accordingly.

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Tube and Pipe Tab

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The Tube and Pipe tab displays when you create or activate a primary runs assembly. The Tube and

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Pipe tab contains tools you use to work with tube and pipe assemblies.

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Pipe Run Tab
The Pipe Run tab displays when you activate a pipe run. The Pipe Run tab contains tools you use to
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When you activate a route, the Route tab displays. This ribbon tab contains tools specific to routing.
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 Browser
When you add tube and pipe runs to a design, a tube and pipe subassembly is created. This
subassembly contains the model data for all tube and pipe runs in the model. Each run is automatically
placed in a separate subassembly. The following image shows a tube and pipe design with various

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components expanded, illustrating the organization of the design data.

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 Part Environment
The tube and pipe environment provides an authoring tool to create custom fittings and components.
This authoring tool enables you to prepare either an iPart or a normal part for publishing to the
Content Center Library. The authoring tools are found in the Manage tab>Author panel, as shown in

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the following image.

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Creating Tube and Pipe Runs
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in the assembly, there are multiple tasks and procedures to follow during the creation of a tube and
pipe design. To learn how to create a tube or pipe design, you should first understand the basic steps
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involved in creating tube and pipe runs.

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The following image shows a completed run that is populated with pipe segments, elbows, and
couplings that are automatically placed along the route based on the current style used.
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 Process: Creating Tube and Pipe Runs
The following diagram gives an overview of creating tube or pipe runs.

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 Primary Runs Assembly and Tube and Pipe Runs
When you select to create a tube or pipe run, a single primary subassembly is added to the overall
assembly, if the primary runs subassembly does not already exist. The default browser name for this
primary subassembly is Tube & Pipe Runs. Every run you create in the overall assembly is added to this

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primary runs subassembly. The number of runs you include depends on your design and
manufacturing requirements.

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Each run can include one or more individual routes that can share the same style or use different styles.
Because you have the ability to choose unique styles, it is possible for you to have all three route types,

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geometry or an initial fitting dropped on the route to create a branch or fork.

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In the following image, the browser shows that the primary runs assembly Tube & Pipe Runs consists
of three unique tube or pipe runs.

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 Exercise: Examine a Tube and Pipe Design

In this exercise, you will open a model that contains rigid pipe, rigid tubing, and a flexible hose. You
will examine the tube and pipe environment including the ribbon and browser.

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The completed exercise

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Exercise Setup
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1. Start Autodesk Inventor Professional.

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(Projects) in the Quick Access Toolbar at the top of the interface.

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Examine a Tube and Pipe Design

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The assembly includes several runs including rigid pipe, bent tubing, and flexible hose.

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2. In the Browser, click Bulkhead:1 to highlight the component in the assembly.

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3. In the browser, expand Bulkhead:1. While observing the component in the assembly, change
the offset for the Flush15 constraint to 220 mm.
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The tube and pipe runs update to reflect changes you made to the position of the bulkhead.
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4. In the browser, right-click on Frame-Steel:1. Click Enabled to toggle off this option so that you
can see the tube and pipe runs.
5. In the browser, right-click on Tube & Pipe Runs and click Edit.
In the ribbon, the Tube and Pipe tab displays and the Tube and Pipe Run is now active. In the
Tube and Pipe tab, the tools and the tube and pipe style list display.

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 6. In the Run panel, review the available styles.
The document includes styles for rigid pipe, tube, and flexible hose.

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7. In the browser, expand Run01.
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fittings. Route02 defines the path for the tubing. The run subassembly also contains the parts
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8. In the browser, double-click on Run01 to edit the run. The Pipe Run tab displays.
9. In the browser, double-click on Route01 to edit the route. The Route tab displays.

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 10. In the browser, expand Autoroute 1.
The route contains two manually placed route points that define the start and end points for
the route. The four points in the Autoroute 1 group define the points that were created using
the Autorouting tool.

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11. In the Route tab, in the Create panel, click Move Segment. Move the cursor over the segment
shown in the following image. When the drag handles display, drag the segment away from
the frame.

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12. Right-click in the graphics window and click Done.

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13. In the Route tab, in the Exit panel, click Finish Route to return to the Run01 subassembly. The
rigid pipe run updates based on the changes you made to the route.
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14. In the browser, double-click on Route02 to edit the tube route. Zoom in to the route.
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 15. In the browser, double-click on Run02 to edit the subassembly that contains the flexible hose
runs. Each flexible hose is contained in its own subassembly.

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16. Expand Flexible Hose 02. Double-click on Hose02 to edit the route. The route contains two
points: the start point and end point.

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18. Return to the top-level assembly.

19. Close all files without saving changes.
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 Chapter Summary

This chapter introduced you to the tube and pipe environment in the Autodesk Inventor software.

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Using the tube and pipe environment, you can create rigid pipe, bent tube, and flexible hose runs
between your assembly components.

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Having completed this chapter, you can:

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Describe the tube and pipe environment.

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