Connections from fluid power planning can be routed freely as pipings in the layout space. The complete procedure for the free routing and further processing of a piping consists of the following working steps:
- Inserting fluid items on a multi-line fluid power schematic page
- Inserting screw connections on a multi-line fluid power schematic page
- Configuring multi-line pipings between the fluid items or screw connections: The configuration is effected either as a piping with the Pipe function definition through a connection definition point. This piping then has an own DT. Or the configuration is effected as a conduit / line with the Piping definition function definition. In this case the piping has an own DT.
- Inserting fluid items in a layout space
- Inserting screw connections on a fluid item
- Freely routing piping between the screw connections: In this case a routing path is automatically generated along the shortest path between source and target of the piping at which the piping is automatically routed. The generated piping elbows have a bending angle of 90°. Collisions of the freely routed piping with other items are not prevented during free routing.
- Adapting automatically generated pipings and piping elbows manually to the installation situation after routing:
Straight pipe segments: Displacement orthogonally within or outside the 2D plane, extending, shortening
Piping elbows / Bending positions: Moving, changing the radius, inserting additional bending positions, deleting.
When editing a piping the design mode can also be used together with the activated object snap. - Generating a model view and using it to represent the freely routed pipings together with the fluid items and the screw connections
- Exporting freely routed pipings in XML format
- Generating manufacturing data for the bending of pipings with the software of the pipe bending machine
- Bending pipings with a pipe bending machine
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