From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing
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The standard parts library - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing
The standard parts library
- [Instructor] When we activated SOLIDWORKS routing earlier we saw new parts come up in our Design Library. Now we are going to take a closer look at the Library and see what's available to us. Some of the most important parts that you want to locate for piping are flanges, elbows, pipes, and crosses. We are going to be using these pieces during this course. There are more options in the Design Library than meet the eye. You might be familiar with some of these pieces from annotations, assemblies, features, parts, but we're going to actually scroll down to this new section, routing, that we peeked at a little bit earlier. Now we're going to scroll down to the piping drop down, select this, and you'll see that we have the parts that I mentioned. Crosses, elbows, flanges, pipes, tees, et cetera. Definitely look through here and explore some of the different things that are available to you that you can use and don't have to create any models from scratch yourself. To insert a piece…
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