Inventor Product Design Suite - Pipe Routing - Lilly Demo

hello and welcome to this demonstration for the inventor product design suite my name is rusty Belcher and I'm going to be going through this demonstration with you today I'm going to start off this demonstration in one of the components it's part of the product design suite and that's Navisworks Navisworks allows me to look at and handle models that are incredibly large actually larger than my cad system can actually handle we're actually looking at an entire deck of a ship in this example and you can see the entire deck if i hop down onto one of the decks we'll talk about one of the benefits of Navisworks is that it works with so many different kinds of CAD applications the append command over here allows me to just bring in data from a number of different sources Navisworks of course but all the Autodesk formats are supported we also have DWF FBX like a point clouds Revit step I just aces and so on if I were to turn around we're going to be focusing quite a bit on inventor in AutoCAD data today those are certainly data that you can generate with the product design suite but of course step I just in aces those are the major translations that come out of any mechanical software on the market siemens NX is already supported that's a brand new tool that's on the market today CATIA v4 CATIA v5 the DWF design review tool all of the autodesk formats or all the Autodesk products are capable of creating a DWF file so whether it's Revit building systems MEP civil design all of those tools create DWF files and you can bring those DWF files into Navisworks and utilize them with your design and google sketchup as well Google Sketchup is one of the largest free modeling libraries on the internet that's available for you if you haven't taken a look at that library it's called the Google Sketchup 3d warehouse go out and take a look at it and see what all is available but let me give you a little tour of this ship design I just take basically jumped into another we call a view point and this is one compartment back of where we were our aft of where we were and this is a gym that's set up a lot of times on word shipped spaces very limited so right beside the pumps amidst the piping and HVAC and electrical wire ways you'll see exercise equipment all over the ship wherever they can find a place to put a piece of exercise equipment they can and Navisworks is a great tool that allows me to visualize or with real time fly through and walkthrough capabilities models that are incredibly large now I'm not really here to give you a Navisworks example so let's just take a quick look at some of these other compartments I have a birthing area set up on this particular deck and we're able to communicate very easily what that birthing area would look like our ship stores and all of our storage areas have been documented again I'm not going to focus a lot on the weapons handling aspect of Navisworks but we can certainly put some things into motion and animate a few of these designs as well and I can jump over here into our command and control center and show you that again Navisworks can't handle models that are just incredibly large now our demonstration today is going to really focus over here in the machinery space and we're here to talk about some piping layout some of the auto routing functions that are available inside of the product design suite premium Edition and I'm going to walk around the corner here and this demonstration certainly is aimed at a boiler manufacturer and this is just just to make a little note of some of the things Navisworks can handle this is a point cloud of a boiler it's been placed in our design we can certainly utilize some of these real-world laser scans in our design so we here we have a reality or a real boiler in context of our digital model Navisworks certainly allows us to do that but we're going to focus on this asked this piece of machinery up here today in our demonstration I this is a piping system that I got from a customer quite a long time ago actually this we've always called it Lily and Lily's kind of a auto routing playground that I use whenever I have to teach auto routing or demonstrate auto routing I certainly tend to utilize this example so here I have it in context of the ship does if I walk up to it and take a look we are going to focus I think first on how I generated the frame for this I'm going to take you through and show you the frame generator capabilities of inventor in the product design suite I'm then going to show you how I built this tank back here I'm going to walk in here and take a look at this particular tank I want you to see the part modeling capabilities of inventor and the product design suite and we'll finish up by focusing on the pipe routing capabilities that are available in the product design suite premium edition so the first thing I want to focus on in our demonstration today is the frame of our design and to build the frame I'm going to utilize a function inside of inventor called the frame generator so I'm going to open up an assembly and I have my basic design of the frame done with a simple sketch and a couple of simple extrusions and this is going to serve as the skeleton for my design on the design tab I'm going to choose to use the frame generator the frame generator allows me to select from almost the entire steelbook as far as steel shapes go and I'm going to come in and I'm going to grab a square tube and we're going to stick with about a six by six by quarter for this design now I can come in and just do a simple selection and I can actually select multiple parts at the same time you can hold the shift button down if you don't want to select a particular edge or if you want to deselect it and I'm basically going to select the edges of these solid features and then over in the browser I want to select this entire base sketch I want all of that to be part of my design as well except for this edge and this edge right here those are going to be channel bars so once I have all of my edges selected absolutely I'm simply going to select okay and we'll let the frame generator name off of all of the components and place all of those components in our design now I do want to add the channel bars while I'm here so I'm going to start the frame generator again and change the family in this case I want to use a u-shape and again something about six by twelve pound will select that edge and that edge will click OK and add those parts to our design now I'm going to take the visibility off from our base part and focus on our design so you can see the frame generator has done about 80 percent of the work for me I have to go in now and supply the other 20% that's unique here and and in this case it's basically the end cuts that we need to determine and there are so many different things I can do with end cuts I can miter them I can notch them I can trim them let's take a look at the miter first if you've ever used the Phillip command inside of AutoCAD you'll see that this command is almost identical to that for doing these sharp corners with a miter cut you simply select the two members of the design and apply the meijer on this platform right here I want to use the trim to frame command which again very similar to adding a Philidor a corner inside of AutoCAD the only thing different here is that you have to pick the long member first and then the short member long member short number we can actually use the same command down here where the channel bar I want the channel bar to be the long number and the square tube to be the short number we'll trim these four corners up and I'll spin the part around very easy with the orbit command so there we've got our trimming done the next command I want to show you is trim and extend and this is a very nice way for you to trim multiple members to a selected face so all of these uprights as an example they need to be trimmed so that they meet this face right here and click OK and you'll see that that edit happens to all of those components at the same time and I do want to finish this up for our example so as you bear with me here I'm going to go in and add some other trims here and I think I'll finish up by selecting these four vertical members and trimming them to this lower phase right here so in a matter of minutes really we have created the initial frame are an example of the initial frame that we're going to be using in our design so now that I have the frame done I need to begin creating the drawing that's going to document the design to do that I'm going to create a DWG file and this is a standard DWG that's been used by autodesk for quite a while anyone that has autocad can open up this drawing and utilize it i'm going to create a couple of views here here is our front view our side view our top view and isometric view so there are all of our drawing views created pretty quickly I'm going to go ahead and edit this view I want to shade it take advantage of some of the printer capabilities we have now and I also need to begin again adding dimensions and parts lists and things like that to our design so I'm going to start my dimension command just go to my architectural format and I want to document the the size of our design the general size and I also want to document the actual members themselves and to do that I'm going to utilize a parts list so we'll just bring in a parts list over here and as i zoom in you can see that the quantity is already set up to use as the the order amount of each of the general sizes and shapes that we've used in our design and I do want to go in and annotate each of the individual members and to do that I'm going to use the balloon command so I'm going to drop off the command right here and I want to make a point here that you know if this member is exactly the same as this member you don't have to worry about that that they'll come in and basically be identified the same way and I do want to just dive into this a little bit more I want to go in and talk about the balloon Styles and all the ways you can configure inventor to do your framework so here is the actual balloon style and I'm going to choose to use a split balloon and instead of item in quantity I want to add the the overall length of the part and the length of each of these parts is controlled by little parameter I know the name is G underscore L and I'll move that up to the second position there so now when I come in my balloons are going to give me the item number which corresponds to the parts list and it's also going to give me the length of the item I've attached the arrow head to so I can come in very quickly and just drop in each of these I think these notes would be very useful for the guys out in the shop we're actually making these components again just want to make a point that if you use the same item twice you will get the same item number so again very quickly we have begun the documentation the drawing documentation for our frame we're not too far away from finishing the complete design and I hope you see at this point how the frame generator along with the documentation tools inside of inventor really do make frame design so much easier than the classic 2d approach now before I leave the frame design I do want to bring up a question what happens if the general design for the frame changes and we have all of these components that would need to be modified so a change at this point in a classic approach to frame design could cause you quite a bit of effort and time and expense so let me jump back over here to our design and we're going to make a general change I'm going to go back to that base part that we did earlier and as a matter of fact I'm just going to jump into the base part where it's the active component I'm going to make a couple of changes I'm going to change our length here from 60 to 65 inches that that should cause quite a number of parts to be updated and also this extrusion right here I'm going to change that I'm going to go back in and edit the feature and I'm just going to drag it upwards a little bit more right about there we'll click OK now when I click return to go back into the main assembly you're going to see all of the components update to the new size of the base component and again I'm just going to take the visibility off of the base part and let's jump over and see what happens when we go back over to the drawing you're going to see it update very quickly just the same as you saw the assembly update and if I were to go in all the links of the parts are now showing it their proper length and the Bill of material is also showing or displaying the correct information in way of our change the next thing I want to focus on is just the general modeling practices that you'll find inside of Autodesk Inventor and for this demonstration I'd like to model a simple tank that we'll use later on in the demonstration well the first thing I want to do is create a new component we create components templates and I'm just going to choose a standard inch based template this puts me right to my first sketch and I can go ahead and select from a number of sketch tools very similar to the tools that you're going to see inside of AutoCAD I'm just going to draw a rectangle and my rectangle I'm going to put in some information here for the length of this I'm just going to type in length equals 20 this is going to be the base plate of my tank and it's going to be a half inch thick so we'll just enter a dimension for that there and I want the rectangle to sit right at zero this little yellow point is zero so I simply add a geometric constraint that places that rectangle so it will always be centered at zero now I'll start my extrude command inside of Inventor you see a number of the tools or all of the tools are based on a ribbon and the ribbon changes depending on what you're doing so as I start the extrude command I can simply finish the sketch it puts me right into the 3d modeling area and I can start the extrude command and in this case I want to set it up to be 11 inches and we're going to center that at 0 again so here we have our first feature inventor is a feature based modeling solution and you'll see the feature that we just created show up in the browser and later on I can come back and make changes to that as I need them I'm going to create a sketch on this face here and I want to use the offset command again very similar to what you'll see in a tool like AutoCAD that works as the same way inside of inventor and I'm going to add a dimension 0.75 to that particular line and we're going to drill some holes on this sketch and and just like I would drill holes out in the shop I'm going to add a center punch at each corner and I'll finish my sketch and then start the whole command so as I can start the whole command you can see that each of the holes appears and I can come in and with a simple gesture I can drag the hole to the desired size and in this case I want to create a half inch hole and we'll click ok so there you can see each of the holes in the corner of our base plate now I want to begin the process of modeling the tank that's going to sit on top of this I'm going to create another sketch on one of my central plains on my central work plane we'll just Center this up and I'm going to project my geometry I'm just going to project this edge here and draw a line upwards and I'll place a circle at the top of that line now as you're generating this geometry you do have the opportunity to type in a value and you can also incorporate parameters on the fly so I'm just going to type in here tank underscore dia equals 10 and let's go ahead and generate the height of this tank and what we'll do is kind of use a formula tank underscore dia plus 1 and let's go ahead and put some parentheses in here and we will divide this by 2 plus 1 there we go so we have the value of our tank divided by 2 and then we'll add 1/2 or 1 inch to that so the tank six inches above the base plate let's go ahead and extrude this we're going to extrude it both directions and this is going to be length minus 4 so that the tank length will always be 2 inches less than the base plate length you can use parameters on the fly you don't have to I just wanted to highlight that possibility in this demonstration today the next thing I want to do is add the hemispherical ends on the tank and to do that I'm simply going to go in and select one of my basic work planes there's a nice little tool here that allows me to look right through the part to the to the sketch plane it's called slicing graphics and I can automatically project all of my cut edges through the current sketch plane now I'm going to take a a line right here we're going to give this line a value of two inches and then we're going to add an arc from this point to this point that passes through that point right there very easy to sketch inside of Inventor I'll finish my sketch and start the revolve commands another handy feature I simply select an axis and that revolve feature is added to the end of the tank to fill it an edge we simply select the edge and use the fill it's from the heads-up display and you can drag this little arrow here and set it up to whatever size you want or in this for this example I'm just going to type in I want a one-inch radius there well then mirror these two features and for the mirror plane I'm going to select my work plane because we centered our part at zero we always have those work planes and there's our tank the support will add the support at the bottom it's just a little easier to do it that way and I'm going to use this unique little rectangle command it's a rectangle with the center so as I draw the rectangle it'll draw it from the center out and you can see you have previews for the dimensions so how about I type in point five for that I'll tab over and this one is always going to be tank underscore diameter minus one so it always be one inch less than the tank diameter I'm going to extrude this and I'm going to specify that I'd like to extrude it to the cylinder here and I just want to make sure it's a join so it adds material to our design we'll do a little pattern here we'll simply select that feature I'm going to specify my direction there and I want to just specify that it goes you know from the middle out and I'm always want three supports and for the length let's go ahead and type in length divided by three we'll click okay so that we have our three support plates for our design I want to add a couple of nozzles so to finish this up I'm going to generate another feature on this middle plane and again I'm just going to slice my graphics and project my edges when you project the edges you get these nice little projections and each arc as a center point and this just makes it very nice for me to draw this circle right the center of the part and this is going to be a two inch diameter and I'm going to extrude that and again if you don't want to type in the parameters each time you can list your parameters it's going to be tank diameter divided by two and then we'll add one inch to that we'll click okay so there I have the nozzle coming out on the side and I also want a nozzle at the top of this so I'm just going to finish up by doing a circular pattern around this object I want two objects at 90 degrees and I'm going to flip my rotation so you can see the preview always shows me where the parts going to come in now I want to save my part and I actually have a part over here called sample tank I'm just going to overwrite that so now that I have my part I need to begin just as on our previous example doing my documentation so I'm going to start again another AutoCAD DWG file and I want to create my views in this case I'm going to need to use a quarter scale one to four so I'll do my front view my side view my top view isometric view we'll go ahead just like we did before and create those views very quickly with inventor and I do want to shade this view as well now we have a number of annotation tools that are built into inventor and I want to share a few of those with you again I think I've shown you a couple of them already but the dimension tool I'm going to go ahead and drop in a dimension here well it's 20 inches by 11 inches we can certainly if we if dimension to a circle we're going to get a diameter automatically and it really doesn't matter which orientation that circle is it's going to give us the diameter symbol very quickly and very efficiently we can also dimension in the isometric view I don't get a chance to show this off a lot but there you go we can come up to our isometric view and dimension this one as well and just as in our previous example if you were to go back in and uh you know a change occurs and you have to update the tank you could certainly do that all we have to do is go to our parameter table we have things like length and tank diameter those are the things that we renamed on the fly and I can actually change this to I don't let's go with 25 inches and I'll click enter and you can see the tank actually update to suit not only does it update in this view but it updates in the drawing view as well now one of the things I don't get a chance I'm going to undo that change so we'll go ahead and put it right back where it was one of the things I don't get a chance to do a lot is to talk about how we would implement inventor if we were to come on site and work with you and set it up to do you know and efficiently the things that you do as a designer so if you do tanks like this you know you're not finished at this point of course you have your design and and it's ready to go but what happens with the next tank how do you handle the next tank well if it's similar to this tank all you have to do is come up to our application icon and use the save as template command this allows you to create a template of this tank so you can build in as much information into this tank as possible and the next time you need to create a tank it is so much easier to do and let me give you an example of that I've already saved this as a template so let's go ahead and show you you know after implementation what you could actually achieve with inventor you could start a new part and instead of using the default templates I'm going to go to my common part temperate templates and here I see the tank with base I can go ahead and start it and I've added a bit more information I'm using the little chrome color and it you can see the reflection and I've added some text embossing to the tank as well but if I start my parameter table I can quickly come in I'm just going to filter out to these renamed so you can see I have length tank diameter nozzle tank name things like that so if I scoot this over a little bit I could quickly come in and you know change my tank to 30 inches just hit the enter button and you'll see that update automatically I can modify my diameter to 12 you'll see the diameter in the base update and you know even change the name go ahead and change it to imagine it and you'll see the name update on the part so it's not just about how easy it is to model inventor or how easy it is to model in inventor the first time it's how inventor can be set up to do these common tasks for you and to make them easy as possible you would try to get the 80% of the design that's the same every single time and get that into a template so that you can concentrate on the 20% that's different every single time so now we're going to focus on the pipe routing capabilities that are available in the inventor product design suite premium edition to do that I'm going to open up a file I mentioned before I've always called this example Lilly this was actually some customer data that was given to me quite a while ago and I've always viewed this as a pipe routing playground whatever I wanted to do whatever pipe route I wanted to create I could come in and create it in this particular demo set so here we have a pump and a kettle and a couple of condensers on top of a frame we've already talked about how we modeled some of the components and how we built the frame what I'd like to do though is to come in and actually add that tank we were working on earlier to this design and to do that I'm actually going to create a couple of components in place you don't have to use the frame generator to create frame components you can create them one part at a time and I'm going to begin this by choosing a custom part template I have setup for a four by two by quarter inch rectangular tube I'm going to drop this off in the background and of course it's a little too short I'm sure you've had this happen before in your past practices where you cut a part too short well this is by design in this particular case I'm going to click return I want to show you how to join components together with the product design suite with inventor I'm going to use just regular conventional constraints and these are basically location rules that allow me to determine how parts are oriented and how they relate to each other so I'm going to declare those two phases are mating together we'll apply that and then I'll declare that these two phases are flush very simple and easy to do now of course this part is too short so I'm going to go over and right-click on the part and I'm going to set it to be adaptive and adaptivity is something that's really unique to inventor it allows for certain values in the part to stretch to suit the conditions you place on the part so now I can start another location rule I want to specify that that face there is going to mate to this face here and if I click OK you'll see that part stretch to suit that given situation so that's another way that you can work with custom part templates in the inventor application I'm going to add my second component using the pattern tool we'll select our part so be a rectangular pattern we'll specify the direction and the distance this is nice anytime inventor asks you for a distance you can measure from one phase to another or to any two points so very quickly we've got our platform for our tank in our current design now I'm going to place the tank we're going to use this particular tank it's not the exact tank I was using earlier but it's one that's very similar to it and again I'm going to start the constraints and I'm going to specify that this tank sits on top of our part and I'm also going to specify that the front edge of the base plate is flush right there so right now I have not fully defined the location of this tank yet as you can see it still moves around still free to move and it's important that as your design develops that implementing change to the design is very very easy so I'm going to leave this tank floating for a while and begin running the pipe to it now it's just I want to show you how versatile working inside of inventor can actually be so now that I've got my tank I want to begin the process of generating a pipe from this particular port to this port and to do that I'm going to go over here to my ribbon and I'm going to select the tube and pipe component that's built into this version of the inventor or this version of inventor in the product design suite I'm going to use the default naming schemes for this demonstration but at any point when you see a dialog it pops up and offers me to change the name you can generate any name or use any name you want to the first thing typically you do is check your current tube and pipe styles and there are a number of pipe styles that are built into the tool but you can generate your own very easily and I am going to modify this one right here this is some steel threaded pipe I want to use that first so I'm going to double click it I'm simply going to set it to one inch in diameter we'll click Save and I can dismiss this particular dialog box now we want to begin a new route now for this first example I'm going to do what I call auto routing I'm just going to let the tool determine what is the best XYZ path to get from the start point to the end point I'm going to go up and select the route tool we'll specify that the route starts here and that it ends here now because there are different solutions to this you can quickly cycle through I particularly like this particular one I'm going to go ahead and agree to that and you can see it does the route for me if I select finish route and I want to come over here and generate the parts I click populate route and you'll see inventor take each of the segments of the route and put the appropriate piece of pipe on top of it so here we have our particular design now I'm going to finish this route and I want to get back out to my segments are back out to my assembly and I want to show you how actually very nice it is to design with this particular setup before I modify the tank though I want to create my drawing so let's go and create a new DWG file just like we did in our previous examples I'm going to come in and generate the front view and the side view and we'll do a top view in an isometric view as well now I've worked with the number of customers and one of the things especially with it when it gets to tube and pipe one of the things they all share in common is the challenge of making changes to the design so here we see a nice simple pipe run that we just generated we see it in the top view the front view and even the side view as well well what would happen or how much work would it represent if I move the tank at this particular point and let's face it this does happen so I'm going to come in and basically I'm going to I'm going to drag the tank up a little bit and I might even scoot it over to the side a little bit and I want you to see how the pipe run updates automatically to suit that particular change and if I jump back over to my drawing you'll see the drawing views update to suit the change that we just made to our design very very nice and easy way for you to bring or to send the changes or make changes in your design and have them update your design automatically so you don't have to worry about missing a view or trimming certain line geometry or forgetting a certain place in the design where you've made or where that change needs to be updated as well much easier and nicer to do it this way than the classic 2d approach so now I want to do some more pipe runs we're going to do a different piping style we're going to use a different piping style this time I'm going to go back and start another pipe run and this time I'm going to modify my standard to this one right here the ico 2531 flanged ductile iron pipe in fittings I'm simply going to right click and make it active and I'm going to double click it so just so you can see the setups you can declare what elbows are used for the 45 and the 90 and what couplings are used you can also determine the rules in this particular case my minimum and my incremental value and I'm just going to for this demonstration change my minimum value just let make sure I've got that set all right so let's start a new route and again for this example I'm going to use typical auto routing at first and then I want to make changes to the route so I'm going to start my route it's going to start up here and it's going to end here now I need to make sure I pick the other direction here I want it to go upwards like that and I can cycle through the solutions that are available I like that particular one but I happen to know that that's not actually give me enough room right here so I'm going to need to move some segments around I want to move these segments around and in this example I am just going to be dragging these things around a little bit I want this segment here to come down I want to get a little bit more room right there that should work I should have enough room there so I'll finish the route and populate it and you'll see the flanges and the fittings come in and fill in the design automatically I want to add another run here this is going to be from this flange to this flange here and I'm going to use a combination of auto routing and manual routing you can actually manually route your pipes or mount your route your pipes any way you want I'm going to start a new route here and we are going to begin on this lower flange now you can hover over top of this axis and type in any value you want I don't particularly know the value here I actually want it to come over until it meets this work plane now in order to make that happen I'm going to right click and use what we call point snap and I'll come down and select this work plane and it'll automatically give me that length to where that line at that angle meets the plane I selected I then can use these heads-up displays to actually add these 45-degree bends to the pipe and I could again come in and type in a particular value here although at this point I'm finished my manual route I want to simply come over and select this particular flange as the end point I'll select the correct direction and cycle through the solution till I get the one I like when I have that I'm ready to go I can finish the route and populate it very very easy to add pipe to your design using this routing technique I'm going to add one more for our example here another round it's basically the same thing we just did again I want to start here I'm going to use my point snap to make sure it comes out at that 45 degree angle and meets that particular work plane I'll put a 45-degree bend in it and select the end point again using my select other direction tool and I'll cycle through the solutions simply finish the route and populate it I do want to add a valve and show you how that works and to do that I'm going to come over here to my content area and select place this takes me out to inventors content center and I can choose from just a wide variety of parts from all types of piping segments you can see in the list here for the fittings and the conduits the caps the couplings I'm down here in the valve category and I'm going to choose this little flanged globe valve will click OK and I'll select the proper size from the preset list and I'm simply going notice if I touch one of the corresponding pipes the valve automatically hops into position so I'm just going to place it right there you'll see the break and then I can very easily just drag it up into the proper orientation I want the valve going upwards and when it's in the correct orientation I simply right click and select done and I've added that or incorporated that into my route now I'm going to finish this out and we'll finish the entire tube and pipe options and here you can see our design of you know three or four pipe routes that we've created now I want to jump over and check out my drawing views at this point so I'm going to jump back over here we'll actually see all of this information added to our drawing views so you can see how nice it is to have the drawing automatically update when changes are made to your design I set it quite often that an inventor the drawing is the model the model is the drawing if you change one the other is going to update to suit so here we have our design I am going to jump on to let's create another new sheet and in this particular sheet I'm just going to do an isometric view and I want to focus on the parts list capabilities of the inventor application so I'm going to go over here to the annotate side and again start a parts list of my view we'll click OK and drop this off right here and by default just about everything all the assemblies and pipe runs are rolled up together so if I were to come in and modify the parts list I can actually expand any of these pipe runs let's see here is there's the stand let's go ahead and expand that so we can see all the parts that make up the stand and maybe we'll expand one of the pipe runs here I'll click OK and you'll see the parts list immediately expand to accommodate all the new parts that we're allowing to show at this particular point I'll start the balloon tool and come over here and start to just balloon some of the components I want you to notice how the balloon tool actually does work I can actually come in and balloon a component or a couple of components of the frame and you'll see the individual item numbers there I can also balloon a couple of the components of the a couple of the pumps and the kettle and things like that and we can even balloon some of the items in the pipe runs completely up to us as how we want to document this particular design of course it's nice that we can come in and edit the views and shade them take advantage of our color printers now and do these nice shaded views inside of our design but I want you to see one of the major hurdles that people that do this kind of work have to face is the parts list and I want you to notice that you know basically the assembly is the parts list and again as we make changes or add things to the assembly or remove things or parts list will update automatically the last thing I want to focus on is some of the downstream benefits you get once you have a 3d model of your design and one of the main benefits is visualization the product design suite is equipped with two tools that greatly help us when we're generating visualization files it's Autodesk showcase and Autodesk 3ds max design the video that you're looking at right now was created using the Autodesk showcase application once I had my 3d model I was able to put it into showcase and generate the anime and the images that you see in this video it took about 90 minutes to produce these and I stitch them all together using Windows Movie Maker live 3ds max design is also included in the product design suite and 3ds max design is one of those tools they use to make those summer blockbuster movies that we see all the time there's really no visual effect you can't achieve given the time and the experience that it takes to run 3ds max design well this is going to conclude our presentation for today I really appreciate your time and attention as we've reviewed some of the pipe routing capabilities that are included in Autodesk product design suite if you have questions about the contents of this demonstration please feel free to contact your local imagina technologies account representative

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Keywords: Autodesk, Product, Design, Suite, Pipe, Route, IMAGINiT, Rusty, Belcher

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Length: 45min 14sec (2714 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 14 2012