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• Essentials Course

  Essentials Course Outline
  (Course Duration: 20 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn about the Inventor Tube and Pipe environment in Inventor Professional. Autodesk Inventor Tube & Pipe is an add-in to the assembly environment. It adds design tools for routing rigid pipes, bent tubes, and flexible hoses to mechanical assemblies or product designs in the assembly environment.

  Comments
  Course content could include wall, floor, column, chair/lighting placement

  Course outline
  Tube and Pipe Assembly Video (2:51)
  Understanding File Management and Naming Video (2:38)
  Tube and Pipe Settings Video (1:32)
  Runs and Routes Video (1:54)
  Creating Video (3:15)
  Automatically Creating a Route Video (3:15)
  Populating a Route Video (1:26)
  Essentials course quiz

• Rigid Pipe Course

  Rigid Pipe Course Outline
  (Course Duration: 35 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn how to create rigid pipe using both sketched and auto route options, place fittings, and work with styles. There are two types of rigid routes: the rigid pipe with fittings type and the bent tube type. Rigid piping routes can be comprised of pipe segments, couplings, standard 45 and 90-degree elbows, custom elbows for self-draining lines (angles between 45 and 90 degrees), flanges, gaskets, gaps for butt welds, and custom bends after population. Bent tubing routes are comprised of tube segments, tubing bends, and couplings.

  Comments
  A rigid route can be a series of auto route regions and sketched route segments.

  Course outline
  Routing Rigid Pipe with Dimensions Video (1:48)
  Routing Rigid Pipe Using Existing Geometry Video (3:39)
  Managing Included Geometry Video (3:45)
  Using Point Snap and Rotation Snap in Rigid Pipe Video (2:39)
  Editing Routes Video (3:14)
  Copying a Route Video (2:33)
  Placing Fittings Video (3:14)
  Deleting Component Connections Video (3:01)
  Changing Styles Video (2:31)
  Setting Up Display Options Video (2:30)
  Self-Draining Route Video (2:38)
  Rigid Pipe course quiz

• Flexible Hose Course

  Flexible Hose Course Outline
  (Course Duration: 25 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn how to create flexible hoses and placed fittings. Flexible hose routes can contain up to three parts: a start fitting, a hose segment, and an end fitting. The start fitting and end fitting for a flexible hose must have two connection points.

  Comments
  Flexible hose routes can be created between standard assembly geometry or initiated from fittings dropped onto existing routes to create a branch.

  Course outline
  Routing Tubing with Dimensions Video (5:19)
  Changing Tubing Styles Video (3:11)
  Placing Tubing Fittings Video (3:02)
  Route with Fittings Video (3:39)
  Route with Offset Points Video (2:45)
  Editing Hose Routes Video (2:53)
  Editing Hose Fittings Video (3:08)
  Flexible Hose course quiz

• Custom Components Course

  Custom Components Course Outline
  (Course Duration: 20 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn how to create and publish custom fittings. You can author and publish tube and pipe iParts as either pipes or fittings for use in piping designs.

  Comments
  Add intelligent pipe fittings to your library.

  Course outline
  Preparing a Tube and Pipe iPart for Authoring Video (2:12)
  Preparing a Custom Pipe iPart  Video (3:12)
  Preparing a Custom Tubing iPart Video (2:13)
  Authoring Custom Fittings Video (2:44)
  Publishing Parts to Content Center Video (3:41)
  Adding Parts to Content Center with Batch Publishing Video (2:04)
  Custom Components course quiz