How to Make a Tube & Pipe Assembly Adaptive Again

[petestrycharske]

All,

Good afternoon!  I was recently asked if there is a way to set up a tube and pipe master run assembly to NOT be adaptive and when necessary make it adaptive again.  I was able to make the assembly NOT adaptive, by opening the master runs subassembly and changing the adaptive in another assembly option in the "Document Settings".  However, when I tried to make the assembly adaptive again, I only had the "Make Adaptive" option, which creates a new copy of the assembly, which is not the desired option.  Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this goal?  Please let me know if this request is unclear and I can try to knock out a video.  Please also let me know if anyone has any questions.  Thanks in advance for any assistance and have a most blessed day!

Peace,

Pete

[Mark.Lancaster]

@petestrycharske 

Not sure I fully understand why someone wants to defeat the tube & pipe adaptiivity aspect and then later on turn it on.  I would have to understand their end goal

Not sure if this will help or not but @cbenner  and I did a class at AU16 and we talk about copying and making pipe runs adaptivity again.  It starts around the 22 or 23 mark in this video https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Increasing-Volume-Inventor-Tube-Pipe-2016#video

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi Pete,

A few things to look into. Indeed T&P and C&H are based on Adaptive technology. Adaptivity has a few limitations. 1) Only one occurrence of an iam or an ipt file can be adaptive. 2) Any given document can only be adaptive within one assembly. 3) T&P and C&H adaptivity is managed by the Add-Ins. They may not be exposed to the users.

Try this. Right-click on the T&P sub you want to make adaptive -> Properties -> Occurrence -> check Adaptive. Does it work?

If not, please share an example here or send it to me directly ([email protected]). I would like to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

[petestrycharske]

Thanks @johnsonshiue !  I believe that is the option that they're looking for and I had forgotten to check in that location.  That should get me what I need!

@Mark.Lancaster, I believe they want to be able to switch off adaptivity, like they do for every other component, once the project is no long in flux.  We discussed how this isn't necessary and shouldn't cause the same issues that we sometimes run into with other adaptive designs, but he was still curious if this was an option.  Hope this helps clarify the desire, even though I agree with you that this shouldn't be necessary.

Thanks for the help, hope all is well and have a most blessed night!

Peace,
Pete