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BOM with Tube and Pipe

AMN3161 — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:04:33 GMT

I am wondering if there is a better way to do this

I work at a company that build rather large piping skids for power plants

We use the Tube and Pipe to do our piping and we deal with some systems that can have 20+ Runs on a fairly regular basis. When create our pipe drawing we normally do a set of drawings for Major Piping then another for Minor Piping. Otherwise the set of drawings get massive and we like to get welded pipe to shop before things line threaded piping and swagelok tubing.

When we create the Major piping, we will do a level of detail within the Inventor created "Tube and Pipe" Assembly to only show major piping runs and making all of the Major piping runs Phantom with the others just on normal. This way fittings that are used within multiple pipe runs are the same item numbers, this makes it easier for the fabricators. We only balloon the Major piping and set the filter in the parts list to be "ballooned items only"

Once we PDF the Major piping then we do the minor piping by changing all of the minor piping to phantom and the Major Piping runs to normal. Again we only balloon the minor piping so only minor piping shows up in the parts list.

The problems comes back if we go back and edit the drawing that was already created, its breaks the parts list because of us needing to switch runs from Phantom to Normal and vice versa

This is the options i can figure out unless any of you can think of anything

1. Just deal with it and fix the parts list every time i need to edit the piping drawing

2. Making one giant set of drawings so all of the piping being details is all phantom

3. Making logic that will set the runs to phantom or normal depending on what drawing is open

Is there a better way to do this?

Re: BOM with Tube and Pipe

blandb — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:03:57 GMT

Can you not just create a drawing of each run? That is what we always did and seem to work fine, but I'm not sure if that would work for what you are doing or not.

Re: BOM with Tube and Pipe

AMN3161 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:42:14 GMT

turns out this can all be down through view reps and a filter in the parts list

so that made things much easier

Re: BOM with Tube and Pipe

CGBenner — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:50:59 GMT

@AMN3161

Are your Major and Minor piping mixed within pipe runs? Is that why the need for switching back and forth? It was always my general proactice not to mix pipe specs within a pipe run, to facilitate detailing of those lines that needed to be welded outside, versus those that could be fabricated on the shop floor.

But, yes...in those instances where I could not avoid including a spec break in a run,... View Reps seemed to work the best.