From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Tube library components

Tube library components - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

Start my 1-month free trial

Tube library components

“

- [Instructor] As we were going through the Piping Lessons, you might have noticed that we always opened the Piping folder for parts in our Design Library. However, there is an entire separate library of parts that can specifically be referenced with the creation of tube. This can be accessed in the Tubing drop-down in the Design Library. So just as before, we'll go under Routing, but this time, instead of clicking on this Piping folder, I'm going to click the Tubing drop-down. Now, you'll see some similar features, like Flanges and Tees, and some different folders as well, like Tube Fittings and Tubes. Since tubing has different purposes, it also has different fittings in the Design Library, but it definitely needs some similar things, like flanges and tees. Now over here in this block, I've added in some various tube fittings that are unique to tubing. If I click into the Tube Fittings file, you'll see that some of the ones I've added in, are some male pipe connectors, that you'll…

Contents