· Using Tube and Pipe Styles

· We learn

· How to use Tube & Pipe Styles dialog box

· Tube & Pipe Styles use Content Center

· We will use components from JIS Library

· Open Sample File

· Tank.iam

· Models > Tube & Pipe > Tank > Tank.iam

· Save a copy of Tank.iam as TankStyleTest.iam

· Close Tank.iam

· Open TankStyleTest.iam (page 2)

· Tube & Pipe Styles Dialog Box

· Edit Top Level Run

· Click Tube & Pipe Styles tool

· Note: Had to create a dummy new run - Run01 under Tube and Pipe Runs

· Else: Tube & Pipe Style tool was dimmed

· Tube & Pipe Styles Dialog

· Active style is listed under Active Style field

· And highlighted in bold in style browser

· General Tab and Rules Tab have

· Components used in JIS20A (current style)

· Other settings and parameters (page 3)

· Create a Style

· Click New button

· Name field

· FB1

· Category field (optional)

· Flanges and Butt Welds

· If not used FB1 would nest under active folder: Rigid Pipe with Fittings

· Notice

· Category field has drop down arrow for future list (page 4)

· Specifying Components

· Icons

· Red outline cursor

· Component is required

· Must be selected from Content Center libraries

· Regular cursor icon

· Component is optional

· Can be selected from Content Center libraries

· Right-click Pipe row

· Select Browse

· Library Browser dialog

· End Treatment menu

· Select Welded

· Notice

· Could also select Standard or Material to further refine filter parameters

· Select in browser

· JIS G 3467 Steel Pipe

· Click OK

· Wait

· Pipe row in Components box has green check mark (page 5)

· Specifying Components

· Right-click Elbow 90 row

· Select Browse

· End Treatment menu

· Butt Welded

· Click Filter button to refresh browser to show only that fitting type

· Select JIS B 2312 90 Deg Short Elbow Steel

· Click OK

· Right-click Flange row

· Select Browse

· End Treatment menu

· Butt Welded

· Click Filter button

· Select JIS B 2220 Butt-Welding Type Flange WN - 30K

· Click OK (page 6)

· Specify Options and Parameters

· Select Rules Tab

· Min field

· 1

· Max field

· 200

· Gap field

· .5 (value too high for working model, value used to show gap clearly)

· Check Display Gap option

· Selected (gap will display)

· To avoid clutter - do not use

· Check Use Flanges for Couplings

· Save (page 7)

· Edit Styles

· FB1 is added to styles browser

· Under new category

· Under Rigid Pipe with Fittings

· Select General Tab

· Options are greyed-out

· Not in edit mode any more

· Select FB1 in browser

· Click Edit button

· Now we can change values for diameter

· Keep 90 mm

· Save

· Close

· Save Assembly

· To save new style in assembly (local template) (page 8)

· Apply the Style

· Apply style to existing run

· Right-click Pipe Route 19 (not Pipe Run 19)

· Select Edit

· Standard Toolbar

· Drop down menu

· Lists available styles

· Click FB1

· Click Return tool to return to pipe run level

· Specified style is applied to run (page 10)

· Insert Flange

· Edit Pipe Route 19

· Right-click Pipe Route 19

· Select to place node on longest pipe member

· Click Return tool to return to pipe run level

· Butt-welded flange is inserted in run (page 11)

· Place Content

· Click Place from Content Center tool

· Select JIS from Filter menu (the funnel)

· Expand

· Tube & Pipe > Fittings > Valves

· Select Gate Valves node

· Double-click JIS B 2071 Flanged Gate Valve Outside Screw and Yoke - 20K

· Click OK

· Place gate valve on run (do not rotate for now)

· Ignore engagement warning (was none)

· Notice

· Another butt-welded flange gets inserted to connect valve to pipes (page 11)

· Tools and Options

· Click Tube and Pipe Styles tool

· Select some other style

· Right-click

· Options are same as buttons above

· We can

· Make style active

· Copy style

· Copy FB1 to create FB1_Copy(1)

· Select FB1_Copy(1)

· Click Export button

· Export to file name FB1Copy

· Note

· Multiple selections of styles possible

· Exports to single XML file (page 12)

· Options and Tools

· Delete tool

· Delete FB1_Copy(1)

· Multiple selections allowed (with Ctrl or Shift buttons)

· Click Import tool

· Select FB1Copy XML file

· Click Open

· Import Tube & Pipe Styles Dialog

· Previews how style will appear

· An alert icon could appear (if style was not deleted)

· Indicating redundancy

· Filter button

· All imported styles preview

· Only those with issues

· Click OK

· Close Tube & Pipe dialog

· Import dialog confirms import with no issues (page 13)

· Global Template

· File Open tool on Standard toolbar

· Inventor directory > Design Data > Tube & Pipe

· Select default global template

· Piping runs.iam

· Click Open

· Click Tube & Pipe Styles tool

· Click Import

· Select FB1.xml

· Click Open

· Import Tube & Pipe Styles dialog

· Confirms error free import of FB1.xml

· Click OK

· Back to Tube & Pipe Styles dialog

· Click Save (could not, Save was dimmed)

· Click Close

· Style will now be available in global template (page 14)

· Summary

· We learned

· Create new style from scratch

· Apply that style to existing run

· Edit a style

· Create styles based on existing styles

· Export and import styles

· Add a style to global template