Trying to pipe together my assembly
Trying to pipe together my assembly
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Hello all,
I am trying to pipe together my assembly with plastic tubing. I know how to do it the hard way (3d sketch and trial and error) but is there a way I can create it right in the assembly? I will just omit it from the BOM. I just want it there for pictorial reasons.
Thanks in advance!
SW2005 sp1
I am trying to pipe together my assembly with plastic tubing. I know how to do it the hard way (3d sketch and trial and error) but is there a way I can create it right in the assembly? I will just omit it from the BOM. I just want it there for pictorial reasons.
Thanks in advance!
SW2005 sp1






RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
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RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
Thanks! I am a moron and didn't even think of that. I am ashamed for even asking the question.
Thanks!
RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
Glad to help. It also helps me and keeps me alert.
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site
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FAQ559-716
RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
At least with multi-bodies you can put them in one file though instead of the "old" days of putting each in it's own file.
How to keep people from modeling in the assembly file would be the problem though.
Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.
RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly
UG has no such distinction, there is only one file type for drawings, parts, and assemblies. This has some advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages: Any part can become an assembly, multiple parts can be joined for fillets to mimic welds.
Disadvantages: Inserting a part to use as a reference to create a part shows it as an assembly in the tree and PDM, confusing IMO. Same file type so it's harder to see "assembly" files when just browsing.
So how should Solidworks handle this? Maybe the ability to save out multi bodies as assembly and part files with their features intact? Add better welding to assembly environment that doesn't utilize separate files? Add some part fucntions in the assembly environment, extrude, revolve, sweep? Allow these assembly bodies and their features to be saved out as part files?
Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.