Piping/hose content center

[Anonymous]

Hello, I am trying to teach myself more in the tubing and piping area of this program. My company is trying to decide between Creo schematics or this for phneumatic schematics. So I was task to teach myself both.... I already know inventor relatively good. I went to school for it and use is for exploded views for work. My question is when I try to make a new hose (Trying to use a rubber type of hose) it says its not loaded in my content libary. It allows me to use steel but thats the only thing it lets me use. Any help would be greatful. Thank you in advance.

[jyager]

Do you have Inventor Professional?

[Anonymous]

Autodesk inventor deisgn suite I believe. 2013

[jyager]

I don't believe any of the tube and pipe libraries are avilable in that module unless something changed. I had to upgrade to 'Professional" for those fuctions.

[Anonymous]

No way to create this? I have most of the fittings from Creo. I just need the actual rubber hoses. I dont need 100 different types.

[jyager]

Sure, you can model anything in the tube and pipe library same as you would anything else. You just don't have the routed systems environment and it's features and library.

[jyager]

If you have two constrained fittings and you just need the tube between them you'd have to draw a route line (basically create a 2d/3d sketch of the route) between them and then use the sweep tool to extrude it (the tube OD/ID you have at the base of the route line) along it's route path. It's pretty laborious. I used to do that w/ copper tube before I had Professional.

[Anonymous]

Thats true. Ill be doing this alot so that may be too time consuming. I wasnt sure if I could just edit one of the steel ones to make them flexiable and all that. Looks like I need to teach myself Creo. Thank you for your answers. 

[cbenner]

Throwing my two cents worth into this, as someone who has used Pro E piping (3 years) and Inventor Tube & Pipe (6 years)... Inventor's piping system is far superior.  Much more flexibility.  Much room for improvement, yes, but with the Routed Systems (again, availabale only in Inventor Professional).. routing and generating piping and tubing/hoses is much more user freindly.  It's the main reason we dropped Pro E (CREO) 6 years ago and returned to Inventor.

This is all my opinion of course, I recommend researching both before you spend a lot of money.