- Prerequisites for Building Pipe and Tube Routes
Before you create a route subassembly, ensure that you have the part documents available and review the Routing system options.
- Starting a Route When Fittings Are Route Subassembly Components
- Reusing Routes for Tubes and Hoses
You can reuse an existing tube route in the same assembly or in other assemblies. The reused route uses the same part numbers, components, and lengths of hoses as the original route, but different sketch paths as per the design intent.
- Components for Pipe and Tube Routes
Many common piping and tubing components, both parts and assemblies, are supplied with the Design Library. You can create your own custom components and libraries.
- Adding Fittings and Components to Routes
- Changing the Diameter of a Route
You can change the diameter and specifications of a pipe or tube route. The Change Route PropertyManager appears so you can select new configurations for all the elements (flanges, elbows, pipe, and so on) in the route.
- Change Route PropertyManager
In the Change Route PropertyManager, you change the diameter and specifications of a pipe or tube route by selecting new configurations for all the elements (flanges, elbows, pipe, etc.) in the route by changing fitting configurations. You can edit one segment, and required fitting changes apply throughout the routing when you click 
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- Segment to Segment Penetration
If cost or space considerations demand, fittings such as tees can be eliminated by welding the routing segments at the intersection.
- Slopes
You define a slope by specifying the gravity plane, the start point, the direction of the slope, and the slope value. The slope becomes a property of the route segment.
- Spools
Routing provides full support for spools.
- Weld Gaps
You can use the Weld Gap option to create a gap between pipes and fittings to accommodate a weld. You can define the gap for an entire route, a segment of the route, or at an individual endpoint.
- Pipe and Tube Drawings
Piping and tubing drawings of routes include fittings, pipes, dimensions, and a BOM in an isometric view.
- Exporting Pipe and Tube Data
You can export data to other piping applications or create bend data tables for route assemblies that use tubing or pipes with bends.
- Creating a Routing Assembly from a P&ID File
You can import a Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) from a specially formatted .xml file and use that file as a guide in building route assemblies.