Welcome to the introductory world of Pro/Piping. Today the design
and manufacturing of pipe systems is a manual process that requires
prototye builds before the designer can effectively design the piping
system. Not only is this a costly solution, but it is
time-consuming and prone to error. Pro/Engineer Piping Design
offers a solution that can be applied to design the piping systems
within the electronic CAD model and develop the associative
documentation. This tutorial will show three different methods to route
piping so that all piping systems either large or small can determine
how to use the tool to meet their requirements.
During this tutorial you will learn:
This tutorial is intended to be used alongside Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 M160.
Please make sure that Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 is installed on your machine before continuing. Your hosting Hands-on Workshop Application Engineer will have this set up for you. If not, please refer to the READ ME FIRST document.
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example 1600x1200.
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Pro/Piping enables you to create 3-D piping designs as part of an
integrated product development process. Pro/Piping is used
for parametrically creating and routing solid pipe parts in
Pro/Engineer assemblies to and from assembly equipment. Piping
designs can either be specification driven or non-specification driven.
Specification driven designs involve using piping specifications and automated modelling tasks;this method is practiced by the Plant, Shipbuilding, and Aerospace industries. Non-specification driven piping involves creating piping systems using manual tasks, and is often used when designing simple or flexible piping systems.
In addition, 2-D schematic driven design information from Routed System Designer in the form of Process & Instrumentation diagram (P&ID) can be used ot pass design information into 3-D piping designs in Pro/ENGINEER.
Below are four different exercises you can complete to increase you skills and understanding of Pro/Piping. Depending on the piping design size and application, you will chose one or a combination of methods to apply Pro/Piping
Exercise 1: Routing Mechanical Piping Lines
Exercise 2: Routing Specification Driven Pipe Lines
Exercise 3: Routing Schematic Driven Pipe Lines
Exercise 4: Piping Documentation
After successfully completing this exercise, you will know how to :
You are working on a new piping system for a compression unit; this involves the design of piping systems to recirculate cooling water to the compressor. In this exercise, you will manually route a pipeline from Reservoir_F to Tank_B. You will be using manual piping techniques ,and also inserting several fitting types.
Task 1. Open the Compression_top_level.ASM. |
If necessary, click Coordinate Systems
from the main toolbar to enable their display.
If necessary, click Datum Planes, Datum Axes
, Datum Points
from the main toolbar to disable their display.
Compression_top_level.ASM
Task 2. Create a Subassembly for the pipeline leg. |
Task 3. Create the required line stock (raw material parameter file) for the Leg-1 assembly |
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The active assembly is where all Piping features will be created. It is best practice to use a dedicated piping assembly, and not the top-level assembly. |
PIPE_150A Line Stock
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For shape type and corner type the check boxes
configure selectable options, the green ball selection configures the
default selection. |
Task 4. Create a 150A pipeline between flanges on RESERVOIR_F to TANK_B. |
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You should use a meaningful naming convention when creating pipelines. Enable and disable the display of datum features as required, no specific instructions will be given in this exercise. |
Your pipeline is now routed, but you need to change the corner type to accept a fitting and you need to add the gaskets, flanges, reducer, and elbow.
Task 5. We will now modify the corner so that we can insert a fitting |
Task 6. Inserting an Elbow on the corner of the routed pipeline |
Task 7. Place a flange fitting on the start of the routed pipeline. |
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Remember that the ‘existing’ flange is really just copied references from the end flange of a mating piping system. Its geometry is shown for visualization and training purposes. |
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Selecting Pipe End
Task 8. Place a reducer fitting on the routed pipeline. |
Selecting Pipe End
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Notice that the selected port (PORT_0 or PORT_1) determines the orientation of the fitting on the pipeline. The system orients the Z axis of the selected Csys to the existing pipeline. |
Task 9. Modify the pipe linestock |
Task 10. Review the features created in the model tree. |
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You can quickly set the active assembly by clicking Active Asm in the menu manager, and then selecting an assembly from the model tree. |
Task 11. Create a solid part from the Leg-1 pipeline. |
Pipe Solid Created
After completing this module, you should now be able to:
PTC offers a deeper dive training course that will provide a stronger understanding surrounding the Pro/Piping:
Modeling 3-D Piping Designs with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0
If you are interested in attending, please visit the website at www.ptc.com
Created by: Cassandra DeLeon Kemp