I am always fighting with the following. Does anyone have a good workflow for this?
When I have a routing with piping, I do need to go from piping to tubing due to a hose connection.
It is quite easy to start a new flexible tube routing outside the piping. However than it will not be possible to include the hose as assembly in the spool of the piping. Thus not showing up in the pipe drawings .
When dragging the tubing to the piping after creating the tube it will become hard to control the tubing part and relations tot the piping are very wonky
how is your transition part set up?
Pipe rout to one side and tube or flex on the other side?
it should be as easy as getting out of the pipe rout and then start a tubing rout to end the connection. I have not gotten to this in my electrical stuff yet where I will need to run conduit up to a point then use flexible conduit to final components but I would expect to be able to change the sketch at that point to a spline and get the rout to look flexible to the termination point.
True, you can’t have a fitting that makes the transition. BUT you can have a fitting to end the one, e.g. a fitting on the end of a pipe. Then start the tubing from the end of that fitting in a difference sub-asm. Don’t forget that every bit of piping is made on an ASM level with below that a sub ASM that contains the actual piping. There for in the top ASM start a new sub asm in tubing. Does that make any sense to you?
I think I do understand what you say Peter.
When I do start a subassembly (tubing) in the piping assembly that is where the trouble starts .The relations of the subassembly (tubing) to the piping are very hard to control and will get suppressed by the system regulary. Sometimes the tubing is even moved to a random place in the drawing or fittings are flipped.
I do use the Spools option to break the piping into smaller sections, basically for our parts manual. When the tubing is inserted in the spool with the piping, all relations are lost somehow and there is no way back. I cannot remove the tubing bit from the spool anymore. So I always try to do this at the end so I do not need to create the tubing again.
(below an example of the piping spool with the tubing bit (item16))
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.The relations of the subassembly (tubing) to the piping are very hard to control and will get suppressed by the system regulary. Sometimes the tubing is even moved to a random place in the drawing or fittings are flipped.