I think the best workflow to create such pipes in Inventor is to use Frame Generator. 3) Save the files. TraceParts offers digital marketing services to help part vendors, 3D printing suppliers, software and computer hardware vendors promote their products and services and generate high-quality B2B sales leads. 5 – Mating Point.

TraceParts is a leading 3D digital content provider for Engineering, Design, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Maintenance processes & operations. Use a 2D sketch to create planar geometry for features like extrude and revolve, and to create 2D cross sections for 3D lofts and sweeps. To activate the tube and pipe environment and begin adding rigid piping, bent tubing, and flexible hosing routes to an assembly, you must add a run to a standard Autodesk Inventor assembly.

Re: 3D Sketch Dimensioning to a Plane Hi cbenner, Had another go using all the info I have recieved here and yes your correct you can dimension to the origin planes but they need to be visable.

This will need to be made with 3D sketching. Answered on 13 Aug, 2012 07:38 PM ... you need to have inventor professional. Draw twosketches on two meaningful (perpendicular) planes. By comparison, a 2D sketch is created on a single flat plane such as XY. Use 2D and 3D sketch environments to create 3D features Create geometry at any point in 3D space using a 3D sketch.

Specify a rigid pipe style or a bent tubing style.

Join the GrabCAD Community to get access to 2.5 million free CAD files from the largest collection of professional designers, engineers, manufacturers, and students on the planet. Explore the world’s largest, free 3D model library, but first, we need some credentials to optimize your content experience. … Betreff: Dimensioning 3D sketch So you are talking about Tube and Pipe which is a bit different. Create a part in an assembly to use the location of other components in a 3D sketch. 12 Aug, 2012 02:16 AM Step by step introdue? A derived route is created based on a 3D sketch in the assembly. I want the sketches … Using 3D sketches to create derived routes, the resultant derived routes contain exactly the same geometry as selected from the base sketch Use a 3D sketch to create paths for wiring, tubing, sweeps, and lofts.
Hey Guys, I'm trying to transfer a bunch of large, relatively complex models from SketchUp into Inventor.

Create 3D Bend at each vertex. It must be outside any routes in the assembly hierarchy. The path looks like a half ellipse or a near-elliptical spline. 1) Start an assembly. The tubing will need to be arc’s starting @ 0,0,0 on X plane from rear axis to the seat. Adaptive 3D Sketch Within a small plant and between vessels I am running pipes using 3D sketches/2D Sketches and sweeping pipe runs.