From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

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Editing tubes

Editing tubes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

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Editing tubes

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- [Instructor] Flexible tubing has many options of how it can be altered, since the tube is bendable and does not hold a solid shape. Our tubes are controlled by splines, so let's take some time editing and dragging the splines around, so we can figure out how to edit our tube route. Let's start by editing this route that we just created in the last video. I'm going to go over to the left, right-click on our sub-assembly, go up to edit route, and now you'll see, we don't really have a lot of points to be able to edit this spline at. Therefore, I'd recommend going in, clicking on the route sketch, and now I'm going to right-click and select insert spline point. So, click in a few points along this line, to be able to give yourself more points where you can alter your route. After I'm happy with that, I'm going to go ahead and click the check mark. And now, I can go in and actually drag these points around to edit my tube however I want to. So you'll see, if you wanted to try to route…

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