CREO SPECDRIVEN PIPING Powered By CADACTIVE James Sullivan
CREO SPEC-DRIVEN PIPING Powered By CADACTIVE James Sullivan – Cad. Active Technologies, LLC President & Founder liveworx. com #LIVEWORX
WHAT IS SPEC-DRIVEN PIPING? • A Powerful Extension for Piping in Creo Parametric • Standardization for Your Designs – Utilize a ‘Master Catalog’ of standard pipes & fitting hardware – No more manually typing/matching diameters, wall thicknesses, etc. • Create ‘Projects’ of Piping Specifications – Ensure the correct details are used in the right place • Error Elimination – Linestock definitions, fitting models, & compatibility automatically controlled – Improved checking capabilities • Enables Rapid Design Change – When you update the size/schedule of a pipe, associated fittings update to match #LIVEWORX 2
STREAMLINE DESIGN COMMUNICATION • Enables Schematic-Driven Routing – Leverage data from a schematic tool (such as Creo Schematics) – Ensure that systems or electrical data matches 1 -to-1 – Your systems engineers will love you! • Create bend-machine tables and bend-code files instantaneously (Supravision) – Your manufacturing team will love you! • Generate piping drawings automatically (ISOGEN) – Save time by eliminating manual drafting efforts – Your managers will love you! Take-Away: Spec-Driven Piping Offers Dramatic Improvements to Design Time & Error Elimination #LIVEWORX 3
SO, WHY ISN’T EVERYONE USING SPEC-DRIVEN PIPING? #LIVEWORX 4
SPEC-DRIVEN PIPING TODAY Well, it’s complicated - There are three parts to spec-driven piping: Master Catalog of Pipes, Fittings, Insulations Fitting Libraries Specs (CAD models) (More Resource Files) (Resource Files) Managing Data & Adding to the Catalog Requires an Expert #LIVEWORX 5
EXAMPLE UPDATE TO A MASTER CATALOG • To create a new pipe family… in Creo 3 – New “pipe family” file must be created • Pipe File • Pipe Diameter File • Pipe Thickness File – Then additionally, • • piping_manufacture_dir. ptd piping_material. ptd piping_mcat_dir. ptd piping_unit_system_dic_file. ptd Large Number of Files Must Be Maintained Pipes, Fittings, Insulations, Bends, Miter, etc Values Must be Typed Exactly • New and improved in Creo 4 – Files now use CSV instead of PTD format – Some files improve with consolidation • However, data translation is therefore not a 1 -to-1 Requires Expertise to Create & Manage – Upgrading from Creo 3 will be a manual process #LIVEWORX 6
EXAMPLE CREATION OF A FITTING MODEL Fitting “Code” Part Parameter Coordinate Systems for Entry and Exit Ports Proper CSYS Alignment Feature Parameters for Size & End Type on CSYS #LIVEWORX 7
EXAMPLE CREATION OF A PIPING SPEC • To create a new ‘spec’ in a ‘project’ – Desired pipes must be added from the Master Catalog – Desired fitting families must also be added • Models must all have correct data – Data must match the Master Catalog • Sizes, End Types, and Schedules • Fitting Categories (groups) – All items in the spec must point to the appropriate file in the master catalog Data Must Match the Master Catalog PTD, CSV, & INP File Formatting Multiple Projects Difficult to Maintain Difficult to Ensure Your Team Is Up-to-Date Take-Away: Spec-Driven Piping is very Powerful, but can be Time. Consuming to Set Up & Maintain. #LIVEWORX 8
RSYSCONFIG IS THE SOLUTION! Powered By #LIVEWORX CADACTIVE 9
RSYSCONFIG – USER-FRIENDLY WEB INTERFACE • • Implementation of Creo Spec-Driven Piping, Simplified Leverage Industry and Your Own Company Standards Verified Fitting Compatibility via an easy-to-use GUI Seamless Data Migration for Creo 4 Taking manually-generated text files… #LIVEWORX and providing a user-friendly interface! 10
RSYSCONFIG – MAINTAIN YOUR MASTER CATALOG Web-Based Platform User-Friendly with No Formatting Concerns Create & Modify Catalog Data Easily Direct Integration w/ Creo Parametric Visit cadactive. com for the full video demonstration. #LIVEWORX 11
RSYSCONFIG – SYNC DATA GUI Create All PTD/CSV Resource Files on the Fly Deploy Config Data to Your Project or Team Upload Existing Libraries to Onboard Easily Seamless Upgrade from Creo 2 -3 to Creo 4 Visit cadactive. com for the full video demonstration. #LIVEWORX 12
CREATING FITTING LIBRARIES – AUTOMATED Set Required Parameters Quickly & Easily Ensure Compatibility w/ Proper Sizes Auto-Validate Geometry Compliance Upload Fitting Families in an Instant Visit cadactive. com for the full video demonstration. #LIVEWORX 13
OUR PRODUCTS • Rsys. Config (as shown today) – Spec-Driven Piping, simplified and scalable – Coming Soon – Cabling Integrations • Model. Extract – Generate reports instantaneously – Communicate your designs easily and quickly • Copy-Geometry Automation – Simplified sharing of critical model interfaces • Auto-Routing Automation – Accelerates piping design – Auto-generating initial pipeline assembles, linestocks, and much more For More Information - Please Visit cadactive. com OR, Come Say ‘Hi’ at Booth 109! #LIVEWORX 14
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