Bent copper tubing not staying in place?

[jyager]

I tried doing several searches but maybe I'm not searching for the right question.

In routed systems, If I route "hard" pipe from one point to another, when I populate the route and go back up to the parent .iam level and try to drag the pipe it goes nowhere, this is good. If I try the same with the copper tubing, it'll stretch around all day long...I tried constraining it but that seems to just throw it all over too.

Is there a way to stop copper tube from stetching about?

[lesmfunk]

I have been told to avoid the autoroute option in bent tubing. I manually draw and constrain my 3D sketch route to fixed objects and the tube doesn't move.

[salariua]

I usually fully constrain my routes, or ground them. The geometry inside is adaptive, but the assemblies need not.

[cbenner · Accepted solution]

This is an old post, one of my first, but it's good advice for any kind of tube & pipe assembly.

http://cbennertipstricks.blogspot.com/2013/05/tube-pipe-grounding.html