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Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

(OP)
When Harold routes a pipe on a skid, and then I open the skid assembly, some/all of the pipes show up as 1" diameter x 20 ft long, regardless of the diameter or length that Harold actually used.

If I highlight one of those pipes and click Properties, it points to a Pipe.sldprt within the design library on my computer.  

What am I doing wrong?


 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

I'd say the thing you're doing wrong is relying on Harold's lazy, sloppy work being done right.

blllttt  

Hope Harold's not on here...

Seriously, though, I'm not too familiar with routing (OK, never used it at all), but I would guess that if it's pointing at a file on your computer then that would be the problem.  What do they point to when you open them on his PC?

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

On Routing, if you are in a multiuser environment you will definitely want to be using a single library on a server and make sure that all users are pointed to those files. Also make sure that the pipe files crated by routing are uniquely named. A PDM system helps in this scenario quite a bit.  

Joe Hasik,
CSWP/SMTL/MTLS
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RE: Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

Yep... what they said.  This sounds real similar to the complaints that used to come around about toolbox and giant fasteners.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
Certified COSMOSWorks Designer Specialist
Certified SolidWorks Advanced Sheet Metal Specialist
 

RE: Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

(OP)
Is there a way to 'freeze' or 'explode' or 'fix' the routed assembly, so that it's then just a linked group of fittings and defined lengths of pipe, and won't go all wonky when it's opened on a computer other than the one that generated it?

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

(OP)
Okay.  
For File Locations|Design Library, both of our computers point to a list of locations, half on our own computers and half on a server.  So we have no great issues with Toolbox parts.

For Routing|Routing File Locations, both of our computers point only to our local computers. ... to folders that don't exist on the server.

Next question:  How do I fix that?


 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Two Guys Routing- How Hard Could It Be?

Copy the files of your routing library to the server and change the directories in "I believe" under

Tools\options\system options\routing

I don't have routing here anymore so I don't recall the paths at this time.

Your VAR should be able to help you out with this as well if you have not called them already.

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com

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