1. Sanitary Tubing Fittings

The escapist 2. Steve, It might be difficult to do this with the first release. We haven't provided tools for adding new component types yet. Wrote in message news:6248437@discussion.autodesk.com.

For me to consider purchasing Plant 3D, I must be able to use sanitary fittings (ie: Tri-Clamp od tube, 95% of fittings used in my designs). Since you will not have in initial release; how difficult would it be for me to create myself with 3D solids I currently posses? Secondly, when do you forsee sanitary fittings being added into a future release? Thanks, Steve.

Sanitary Tubing Fittings

So here is how I did: 1. Project settings: Plant 3D DWG settings / Piping connection settings I changed the Flanged connection to Tri-clamp. Remove the bolt set from the fasteners and add clamp instead. So actually I sacrifised the flange connection to clamp, but you can create a new one. Remove the pressure class and facing from the property matches. In the compound joints in the autoflange: Remove the pressure class and facing restrictions.

And set up according to this: 2.Create a ferrule and gasket: In the Spec Editor you need to open a pipes and fittings calatog and create or copy a flange component: In the General Poperties / Connection port properties the end type is FL Same with the gasket but: The gasket end type is UndefiniedET. 3.Create the clamp: In a custom parts catalog copy a clamp and change to tri-clamp: The end type is UniversalET. It is also possible to replace the default clamp geometry to real tri clamp. This is how it looks when everything works: Roughly that is how you can start in nutshell. Of course this was a quick trainig. If you have further question let me know.

Solution: Use the Catalog Editor to add the required sizes. Open the Catalog Editor from the Manage tab - MEP Content panel or type LAUNCHCATALOGEDITOR. Use the File - Open command and navigate to the catalog that you want to edit. And select Open.