Deleting tube & pipe parts from an assembly

[peterjennings5416]

Hi,

I have an assembly to which I have added some tube & pipe fittings from the content center.

I have a swivel elbow that I no longer require in the assembly but I am unable to delete it.  This applies to all of the tube & pipe fittings within the assembly, not just this elbow.

I have attached a screen dump that may affer guidance.

Any suggestions from anyone?

Thanks,

Pete

[cbenner]

Not saying this will work, because I don't know how you put them in, but try right clicking on the fitting, and see if your menu has "Restore Fitting" on it.  Click that and see what happens.  In some instances where we have had that same issue, this has worked for us.

[peterjennings5416]

Unfortunately there is no such option in the right click menu.

The parts were placed directly into the assembly from the content center.  I have tried to replace the pipe fittings with another part from the content centre using the 'replace from content center' command but get a warning window pop up stating 'Can't replace conduit parts'.

Pete

[cbenner]

I've run into this in the past where we had no options available.  Unfortunately, after asking the same question in this forum, the only last resort I found was to delte the entire pipeline, and re-create it.  If anyone else has any suggestions, I'm open to them.  This sounds like a last ditch solution to me.

[peterjennings5416]

I'm sure I read a thread a while back which mentioned running a macro that then allows you to delete these parts.  I can't seem to find this thread now though.

Looks like for now there is no quick answer.  Thanks for your help.

Pete

[blair]

I'm not sure if the Promote/Demote will work in this case to move the fitting from the Tube/Pipe sub-assembly into the main assembly

[peterjennings5416]

I've already looked at that possibility but unfortunately the options are greyed out in RMB menu.  Thanks anyway.

We haven't upgraded to IV2011 yet and are still running on IV2010.  Is this something that has been resolved in the latest release?

Pete

[peterjennings5416]

OK, I have a solution that works for my current situation and hopefully for all other cases.

Inventor Help says the following about deleting conduit parts:

'In populated rigid runs, default couplings, placed fittings, and conduit parts can be deleted, but default directional fittings cannot'

So it was the 90 degree elbow I couldn't delete due to it being a 'directional fitting'.  I used the 'Replace from Content Centre' command to replace this fitting with a non-directional conduit fitting and this I was able to delete.

[grobbarg]

Old post I know - but can someone try this if not already common knowledge:

Try replacing the rogue fittings (the earlier versions of however many there are) with a small assembly (parts don't work). You can then delete the assembly. No idea why this would work instead of a part but worked for me, was getting bored of deleting runs that had to be changed, and stumbled on this by accident....

Hope it works for you.....

Inventor Routed Systems 2011

Win7 x64