Join Thom Tremblay for an in-depth discussion in this video Automatic routing, part of Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems: Tubing.
- [Instructor] Routed systems has multiple ways to place routes inside of our assembly. For this lesson I'd like to create an automatic route. First I'll begin by going to my environments tab, selecting my tube and pipe tools. I'll accept the default file names and begin the process. Once inside the tube and pipe tools I'll tell it that I'd like to use the soldered copper tubing style and that I'd like to create a new route.
By selecting this style at the top level it will automatically select this style for each additional new run underneath the tube in pipe runs in this assembly. You can't override the style for individual runs. I'll click okay to accept the default name and I'll tell it that I would like to route. Now automatic routing isn't purely automatic where it just simply generates all the routes you've ever wanted exactly right the first time.
Instead you have to help out and you have to give it some input so I've placed some couplings in this assembly that I can select. I'll select the coupling the farthest left on the large part and then the coupling that is closest to it on the opposite part. When I do it will show me an optional routing. And a dialog that I can select other optional routings with and it will simply cycle through showing me the length and the number of segments for each one of these routes.
What I'd like to use is this option and I'll check the green box in the center of the small dialog and it will generate my path. You'll notice that it has included radiuses along the way. It's included bends per the style. In fact the standard bend radius is part of the style. This can be changed either at the style level or you can also double click a bend and change the radius.
You can also find the bend radius under the parameters. In this case I'd like to just accept the default. I'll tell inventor that I'd like to finish my route and now I can see that a new tool has highlighted that is now available to me call populate route. When I select this tool it will put in the three dimensional geometry along this path and I've now created my first route. If you'd like to save your work now is the time to do it and now we can move on to building a route.
- Working with styles
- Automating routing
- Building a route
- Using a derived route
- Editing tubing
- Routing hoses