CREO SPEC-DRIVEN PIPING
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James Sullivan – CadActive Technologies, LLC
President & Founder
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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
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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
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SO, WHY ISN’T EVERYONE
USING SPEC-DRIVEN PIPING?
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SPEC-DRIVEN PIPING TODAY
Well, it’s complicated - There are three parts to spec-driven piping:
Master Catalog of
Pipes, Fittings, Insulations
Fitting Libraries
(CAD models)
Specs
(More Resource Files)
(Resource Files)
Managing Data & Adding to the Catalog Requires an Expert
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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,
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piping_manufacture_dir.ptd
piping_material.ptd
piping_mcat_dir.ptd
piping_unit_system_dic_file.ptd
• 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
Large Number of Files
Must Be Maintained
Pipes, Fittings, Insulations,
Bends, Miter, etc
Values Must be
Typed Exactly
Requires Expertise to
Create & Manage
– Upgrading from Creo 3 will be a manual process
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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
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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.
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RSYSCONFIG IS THE SOLUTION!
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RSYSCONFIG – USER-FRIENDLY WEB INTERFACE
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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…
interface!
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and providing a user-friendly
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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.
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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
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CREATING FITTING LIBRARIES – AUTOMATED
Set Required Parameters
Quickly & Easily
Ensure Compatibility
w/ Proper Sizes
Auto-Validate
Geometry Compliance
Upload Fitting Families
in an Instant
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OUR PRODUCTS
• RsysConfig (as shown today)
– Spec-Driven Piping, simplified and scalable
– Coming Soon – Cabling Integrations
• ModelExtract
– 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
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