SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

1h 55mIntermediate2017-07-25

Authors

Erin Rochelle Winick

Maker, Engineer, Writer, Entrepreneur, Designer, Science Communicator

Course details

The SOLIDWORKS Premium package contains more complex piping and routing features, which enable designers to integrate piping and tubing early on, ensuring operability and serviceability and avoiding extra costs. This course teaches how to use the SOLIDWORKS Premium routing tools for piping and tubing applications. Start by learning exactly what routing is and how it is used. Instructor Erin Winick then explores making routes, sketching pipes, auto-routing, and editing piping. She adds coverings and features such as weld gaps and valves, and creates pipe drawings. She also covers designing with flexible tubing, which is measured, assembled, and routed differently than pipes. After completion of this course, users should understand all basic functionality of piping and routing in SOLIDWORKS, including the related parts libraries.

Learning objectives
Sketching pipe in 3D
Routing and auto-routing pipe
Splitting and deleting pipe
Adding weld gaps, slope, and penetration points
Preparing pipe drawings
Sketching and routing tubes

Skills covered

SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial DesignProduct and ManufacturingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Required software and prerequisites
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Routing Basics

04 - What is SOLIDWORKS routing
05 - Uses of routing software
06 - Connection points and routing points
07 - The standard parts library
08 - Route components and route parts

2. Making Pipes

09 - 3D sketching
10 - Starting a route
11 - Sketching pipe
12 - Flanges and elbows and reducers, oh my
13 - Auto-routing
14 - Virtual vs. internal parts generated

3. Editing Pipes

15 - Edit pipe
16 - Transparency
17 - Adding splits
18 - Deleting pipe
19 - The route bounding box
20 - Design tables

4. Adding Other Components

21 - Coverings
22 - Weld gap
23 - Adding slope
24 - Pipe penetration points
25 - Adding other design library components
26 - The routing component wizard
27 - Required geometry

5. Pipe Drawings

28 - Exporting data
29 - Creating a sub assembly
30 - Drawing creation

6. Tube Routes

31 - What are tube routes
32 - Tube library components
33 - Making tubes
34 - Editing tubes
35 - Using clips

Conclusion

36 - Next steps