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Tube and Pipe Errors

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Cadmanto
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Tube and Pipe Errors

I inherited this assembly from another user.  In making some dimensional changes the pipe runs have now errored.

Not having ever taken any training courses in T&P, my knowledge is just based on simple straight forward runs.

This on the other hand is bit more complicated.  As you can see from the image I have this one run that has errors.

My question is with the violation, is there anyway to pinpoint exacty what the violating member is?

 

TP.JPG

 

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Scott McFadden
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mpatchus
in reply to: Cadmanto

As you can see from the image below, we make extensive use of T&P in our assemblies.

 

pelham_lowside.jpg

One thing we have done is to eliminate the need to create a massive library of T&P components.

We build all of our connectors as assemblies and simply insert a "Wire Connection" aunthored element into the assembly.

TP_Conn.JPG

This part (red wire in image) defines the T&P connection point.  The depth of the connection is defined by how we constrain the wire.

 

The beauty is that this one wire works for all of our connectors regardless of size or material.  Saves a lot of time creating T&P parts.  You can see how the wire works in the image below (I  unenabled the cable to make it transparent.)

Cable.JPG

Mike Patchus - Lancaster SC

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