Overview

The Fluid Systems Design product consists of two workbenches. The Fluid Systems Detail Design workbench allows you to create and manage piping and tubing layout and the Fluid Systems Part Design workbench allows you to build parts that meet industry standards, place these parts in the layout, and define pipe/tube routes between equipment.

This product offers the following main capabilities:

• Build piping and tubing parts to industry standards.
• Select parts for placement from the database using industry standard selection criteria.
• Place piping and tubing parts.
• Route pipes and tubes between piping and tubing parts, and between equipment.
• Position piping and tubing parts.
• Use the PLM database to create and manage piping and tubing parts.

If you are working in a RFLP context, you should first refer to Working with RFLP prior to creating your piping network.

Before reading this guide, you should become familiar with basic concepts such as document windows, and toolbars.

We therefore recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all products. It also describes the general layout.

You may also have to read the Part Design User's Guide, the Assembly Design User's Guide and the Sketcher User's Guide, as well as parts of other user guides as indicated in the text. These user guides are available on the installation disks and should be installed when you are installing this product.

Before using the application, you need to perform administration tasks explained in the Fluid Systems Administration Guide.

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading and performing the step-by-step tutorial.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the user tasks, which give you complete information about the product's functionality.

The Interface Description section, which describes the Fluid Systems Design workbench, provides a quick way of accessing information about commands.

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