From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

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Route components and route parts

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Route components and route parts

- [Voiceover] Routing adds some new elements to the feature tree that you may not have seen before. We're going to take a closer look at these items and what they mean. Over in the feature tree, you can see this logo with a pipe on it. This is a similar logo in the background that you might have seen for parts or assemblies, but has this pipe inserted over top. This means that there is a route contained within this assembly. If you click the drop down, we can see some other new items that are here. Components, Route Parts, and Route 1. Components are items that we inserted. You can see that these are all from our design library. This includes a slip on weld flange like we inserted in the last video. The 90-degree inch elbow and another one of those as well. We scroll down, we can look at the drop down of route parts. Route parts are generated manually or by an auto-routing process we'll discuss later. They display the configuration and length of pipe needed. So if we pull out the side…

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