Validating Piping Resource Setup

This section describes how to validate the setup of piping/tubing resources for the Piping & Tubing Design apps.

This task shows you how to:

Route a Pipe
Add Attributes to a Part
Select a Part to Place

Before you begin:

Using Data Setup, assign resource files to set up data items in Piping/Tubing Design and Piping/Tubing Discipline resource sets.
Bind these resource sets to collaborative spaces. For example, P1 and P2. Bind resources to P1, but do not bind resources to P2.
Consider two users, User1 and User2.
User1 is working with collaborative space P1 (which has bound resources).
User2 is working with collaborative space P2 (which does not have bound resources).

Route a Pipe

User1 and User2 route a pipe/tube.

Open a Piping & Tubing 3D Design document.

From the Fluid Design section of the action bar, click Rigid Pipe or Tube

The Rigid Pipe dialog box appears.

Important: To display the Rigid Pipe dialog box, the Set attribute at creation option must be selected. For more information, see Create a New Object in the 3DEXPERIENCE Native Apps guide.

Enter details and click OK.
The context toolbar appears.
Select the appropriate options on the context toolbar and route a pipe/tube.
Select the pipe/tube and click Edit Properties on the context toolbar.
In the Route Definition dialog box, click Route Size Table .
The Pipe Reference Table appears for User1. Make a selection in the Pipe Reference Table and click OK.

Route attributes, such as Material, Nominal Size , Rating, Outside Diameter , Wall Thickness, and End Style are assigned to the route based on the selection from the Pipe Reference Table.

The Turn Rules Table and the Minimum Tangent Length Table appear. Make a selection in these tables and click OK.

For User2, a message appears:
```
Unable to find resource Pipe Reference Definition Table for Pipe
Specification = Resource is not defined. Please ask the administrator to
define the resource.
```
User2 can also route a pipe/tube, but must enter the values of the attributes manually.

Add Attributes to a Part

User1 and User2 add piping/tubing attributes to a part.

Build a Piping Part (see Creating 3D Components).
In the Piping and Tubing Part Design app, click Typed Part from the Technological Behavior section of the action bar.

The Build Part dialog box appears as shown for User1.
From the discrete list, select the SubPart Type and Standard.

On the basis of the selected standard, values appear in the discrete lists of other attributes. The user can select the desired values.

For User2, all attributes are unset. User2 can add attributes to a part, but must enter the values of the attributes manually.

Select a Part to Place

User1 and User2 place a part at the particular location.

In the Piping & Tubing 3D Design document, click Place Part from the Fluidic Design section of the action bar.

The context toolbar appears.
Click Piping > Part Selection > Find part using catalog .

The Catalog Browser appears, showing the catalog that was assigned to the Part Catalog setup data.

For User1, this catalog appears by default when a session with no CAT settings is opened. To override this default catalog, User1 can select More and search for another catalog.

For User2, the catalog browser does not show any catalog when a session with no settings is opened. User2 can select More and search for a catalog to select a part.