Capillary Tube Design Help

[egrigg]

This will be my first attempt at a HVAC Capillary tube desgin, as you can see from the picture, there are some helical coils, some splines and some straight segments, most of which are not coplanar. These tubes have very specific lengths that must be maintained, and they are always hand formed. I have attached my first attempt at it and certainly not accurate, but I believe that there must be a better way. My question is what might be the best workflow to acheive this sort of tubing design, would you use routed system, etc.?

Thanks in advance.

[BarryZA]

Erik, it looks like you are on 2013, and I am on 2013, but neither my Inv or Fushion will open this file.

[egrigg]

I do apologize, I need to update that signature, I am running 2014 Product Design Suite Pro.

[egrigg]

Any thoughts on this?

[JDMather]

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@egrigg wrote:

Any thoughts on this?

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I doubt I would have any work axis created.
I would most likely have only one section profile.

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Inventor%20Tutorials/Inventor%2011%20Tutorial%207.pdf