SOLIDWORKS 2016

SOLIDWORKS Routing: Piping

and Tubing

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Contents

Introduction
About This Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Course Design Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
About the Training Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Conventions Used in this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Windows 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Use of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Graphics and Graphics Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Color Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
More SOLIDWORKS Training Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Local User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Lesson 1:
Fundamentals of Routing
What is Routing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Review Lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Types of Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Routing FeatureManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
External vs. Virtual Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Virtual Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
File Names in Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Routing Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Routing Add-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Routing Training Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Routing Library Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Routing File Locations and Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
General Routing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Lesson 2:
Piping Routes
Piping Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Typical Piping Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Route Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Pipes and Piping Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
End Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
In Line Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Other Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Routing Assembly Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Creating a Custom Routing Assembly Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Selecting a Routing Assembly Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Creating a Piping Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Route Properties Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Auto Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Route Specification Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating Route Specification Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using Route Specification Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Adding Alternate Elbows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Editing a Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the Route Along Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Isolate Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using Piping Hangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Routing Along Existing Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Exercise 1: Creating Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Exercise 2: Multiple Piping Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lesson 3:
Piping Fittings
Piping Fittings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Drag and Drop a Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Using Planes in Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Split Route to Add Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Orienting In Line Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Adding Tees at Junctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Remove Tube/Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Creating Custom Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Replacing Piping Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Add Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Coverings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Exercise 3: Piping Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Exercise 4: Piping on a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Lesson 4:
Tubing Routes
Tubing Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Typical Tubing Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Tubes and Tubing Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Tubes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Terminal Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
In Line Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Flexible Tubing with Auto Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Orthogonal Tubing Routes with Auto Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Orthogonal Tubing Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Bend and Spline Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Bend Radius Too Small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Export Pipe/Tube Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Using Envelopes to Represent Volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Start Route and Add to Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Routings Tubes Through Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Repairing Bend Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Flip Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Repair Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Re-route Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Select Using Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Route Segment Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Tubing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Rename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Save to External File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Exercise 5: Orthogonal Tubing Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Exercise 6: Flexible Tubing Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Exercise 7: Orthogonal and Flexible Tubing Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Lesson 5:
Piping and Tubing Changes
Piping and Tubing Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Procedures for Tubing and Piping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Change Route Diameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
A Note About Dimensioning Route Geometry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Custom Pipe/Tube Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Pipe Penetrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Flange to Flange Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Pipe Spools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Spools in Drawings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Using Gaskets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Copying Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Mating Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Adding Slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Editing and Removing the Slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

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Editing Piping Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using Threaded Pipe and Fittings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Deleting and Editing Route Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Editing for Obstructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Moving Fittings With the Triad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Using Guidelines with Pipe Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Guideline Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Piping Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Pipe Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Drawing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Exercise 8: Create and Edit Threaded Pipe Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Exercise 9: Using Pipe Spools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Lesson 6:
Creating Routing Components
Routing Library Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Piping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Threaded Piping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Tubing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Assembly Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Cable Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Electrical Ducting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Flex Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
miscellaneous fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
HVAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
HVAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Creating Routing Library Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Pipe and Tube Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Pipe vs. Tube Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Copying Routing Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Creating a Pipe Using Copy and Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Routing Library Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Routing Component Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Fitting Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Using the Routing Component Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Routing Functionality Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Connection Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Routing Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Routing Geometry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Part Validity Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Design Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Design Table Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Component Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Configuration Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Part Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Elbow Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

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Valve Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Assembly Routing Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Exercise 10: Creating and Using Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Lesson 7:
Using P&ID Files
Piping and Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Pipe Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
XML File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Piping and Instrumentation Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Equipment, Pipe and Fitting Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Equipment List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Adding a Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
P&ID Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Pipe with Multiple Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Pipes with In-line Fittings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Process Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Exercise 11: Using P&ID Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Lesson 8:
Electrical Ducting, Cable Tray, and HVAC Routes
Electrical Ducting, Cable Tray, and HVAC Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Electrical Ducting, Cable Tray and HVAC Components . . . . . . 234
Rectangular and Circular Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Modifying a Routing Library Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Electrical Ducting Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Cable Tray Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Routing Component Orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
HVAC Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Coverings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
In Line Duct Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Transition to Circular HVAC Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
HVAC and Ducting Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Exercise 12: Electrical Ducting Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Lesson 9:
Piping Skids
Piping Skids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Grid System Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Initial Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Weldments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Weldment Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Structural Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Adding Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Trim/Extend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Cut-List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

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Walk-through Animations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Capture Motion Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Avatar Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Path-based Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Recording Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Free Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Creating a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Exercise 13: Using Piping Skids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Exercise 14: Creating Walk-through Animations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Lesson 10:
Using SOLIDWORKS Content
Using SOLIDWORKS Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Adding Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Content Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Custom Library Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Virtual Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Components Used in the Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Exercise 15: Using SOLIDWORKS Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Appendix A:
Review Section
Review of Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
How Routing Uses Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
A Note About File References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Find References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Pack and Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
How Libraries Use Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Design Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Design Table Input and Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Review of Top Down Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Parts and Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Editing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Edit Assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Edit Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Edit Subassembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Edit Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Assembly Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Review of Design Library Task Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Essentials of Using the Design Library Task Pane. . . . . . . . . . . 324
Directory Structure of the Design Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Review of 3D Sketching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Orthogonal 3D Sketching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Sketching on Selected Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Creating planes within the sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Splines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

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