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What's New with Inventor 2009 (Article3)
March 24, 2008, 07:12 PM Garin Gardiner
What's New Article #3: Self Draining Lines
Prescription medicines, healthcare products such contact lens solution, nasal sprays and mouth rinse, processed foods and drinks all have one thing in common. They are all manufactured in sterile processing equipment so that you and I are not exposed to harmful bacteria when we use the products.
Engineers in these industries face complex challenges when they design the process lines – the tubes and pipes that carry the product. They must specify approved stainless steel fittings and avoid geometry that could trap biological agents or harbor bacteria. Finally, all process lines must be designed with runoff to facilitate cleaning and sterilization.
Why is this important?
With the new self draining pipe styles in Inventor Professional 2009 we have an excellent solution for engineers who design skids and process equipment in these industries.
Rules based pipe routing enables users to quickly create Digital Prototypes that facilitate design reviews with customers and regulatory organizations. It’s much easier to optimize pipe runs, figure out the right location for valves and other equipment and when the design is right, the proven capabilities of the Inventor drawing tools and the power of DWG TrueConnect streamline the process of producing and distributing accurate manufacturing drawings.
Self Draining Tube & Pipe Styles
With Inventor 2009 you can set up tube and pipe styles to design process lines that comply with ASME BPE standards.
Then, by selecting the “self draining” option in the Tube & Pipe Styles Editor and entering the target slope or runoff angle, you can quickly create pipe routes that comply with the required run off angle.
There’s even an Angle Calculator that helps to compute the angle from a specified drop. In addition to standard 45 and 90 degree elbows, self draining pipe styles include custom elbows for use with fittings with non-standard angles such as 92 or 91 degrees.
Summary
Tube & Pipe design in Autodesk Inventor is widely used by many customers to reduce the time required to design tubing, piping, and flexible hose due to its powerful rules-based routing tools.
With Inventor Professional 2009, these benefits are now available to create self draining in your digital prototypes for items such as skids and process equipment. It will provide particularly strong benefits to those of you that supply equipment to the pharmaceutical, food and personal care industries where equipment must comply with ASME BPE standards for sterility and cleanability.
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