Hello again, folks!
Does anyone know a way to set a default bend radius for Piping? Or with what parameter or property? I.e. the parameter in Route Properties > Bend - Elbows > Always form bends > center line > Bend radius. In Tubing said parameter is read from tube’s Design Table but I cannot find a parameter for Piping.
In my Routing experience, tube gets bends and pipe gets elbows. If you want bends, make a tube with pipe-like properties. A difficulty there is you likely have no appropriate table, as you are asking for.
When we bend pipe, I use a weldment in the design. We have a bender that is gradual and adjustable so that there is not a clean single tool measurement. We use the same tool for an angle bent into a ring. OTOH, a tube bending tool has observable dimensions upon which the tube will be bent. I believe this is a practical (reality-based) reason for no defaults values in pipe bends. Maybe I’m wrong and there’s another pipe bending tool with relatively fixed radii; I don’t pretend to know everything everywhere.
Long time no see…
I just wanted to give some follow-up on my projects.
We decided not to implement SW Routing to our workflows.
I think the major contributor for the decision was Routing’s integrability with our current PDM (Aton & SolidPDM). Simply not feasible. Not worth the effort. Routing didnt give us any benefit compared to SW-au-naturel workflows with 3D sketches and so on.
But more and more tubes are ordered as ready-to-install packages and experience has been mostly positive to my knowledge. But one thing for the future will be to implement the predetermined routes to our legacy designs and also there needs to be a huge work to redesign some of the smaller size units in a manner that enables the use of prebents. I mean, to reconsider our existing DFMA solutions so that tubing would fit without modifications on the workshop.
And one thing I did establish in my thesis was
(as Tom put it
)
that tube and pipe are different things even though Finnish language has only one word for it: putki 
I want to thank everyone for your thoughts, especially Tom G 
we tried routing internally for a real project and it is another incomplete package nobody knows the detail about. expect little to no support and a ton of workarounds… we abandoned the idea quickly.