Being Inventive

Place a Tube & Pipe fitting in an assembly as a normal part

You have opened a Tube & Pipe fitting from the Content Center using the option “As Custom” and saved the file in a location of your machine.

Then, you have inserted the file you have saved in an assembly with the command Place Component, but the file is still behaving as a Tube & Pipe fitting.

For instance, if you right-click while inserting the component, you get the same context menu as if you were placing the fitting in a Tube & Pipe subassembly.

In the assembly browser the fitting icon is the same as if you have inserted the component directly from the Content Center.

The component cannot be demoted, etc.

This behavior is as designed, because the fitting still contains the authoring information that, for instance, would allow you to insert and connect it to a Tube & Pipe run.

So, if you want to insert the component as a normal part, after you open it from the Content Center using the option “As Custom”, you need to remove the authoring info stored in the part with the code you can find in the solution http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS13404549

After doing that, inserting the component in an assembly, you won’t get the Place Fitting context menu, the icon in the browser is the same as a normal part that, in case, can be also demoted, etc.

 

By the way, the fitting still has some Content Center properties as you can see from the context menu, right-clicking the component.

If you want to copy or mirror the fitting along with other assembly components and standard parts and the option “Reuse Standard Contents and Factory Parts”, this can be just reused or excluded.

So, if you want to remove any trace of the Content Center properties, you can use this Macro before inserting the fitting in your assemblies.

Of course, you can easily combine the two macros if you need to remove both authoring information and Content Center properties from the fitting before inserting it as normal part in your assemblies.

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End Treatments for custom components to be used in a Flanged Tube & Pipe Style

You have created your custom Pipe, Elbow and Flange you want to publish in the Content Center Library and use for creating a Flanged Tube & Pipe Style.

 

 
 

The procedure below shows the End Treatments settings to be used when you make the Authoring of these components before publishing them.

 

For the pipe and the elbow, the End Treatments should be Welded.

 

  

For the flange, one of the End Treatments should be Welded which is used to connect to pipe or elbow.

 

The other End Treatment should be Flanged, which is used to connect to another flange.

 

 

In case the Style is Butt Welded and Flanged and not only Flanged

 

For the flange, one End Treatment should be Butt Welded instead of Welded.

 

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Custom Tube & Pipe content unit

You have created your metric custom Tube & Pipe component and you have published it in the Content Center Library for using it in a custom Tube & Pipe style.

 

When you select the component for your style, by the way, the size displays in inch.

 

In this case, check if you have included the in the ipart table of the component, the column that specifies the unit format.

 

And that you have mapped the Nominal Size parameter to this column in the Tube & Pipe Authoring dialog, before publishing the component.

 

After you do this and republish the component, the size will display the expected unit when you select the component for your style.

 

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