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Fitting is a connecting part of pipeline, which is usually located at branching places, turns and transitions to another diameter. Fittings are used for sealed overlap of the pipeline and other auxiliary purposes.
It is convenient to use smart-fragments as fittings. Smart-fragments adapt to objects already existing in the model and affect geometry of connected fragments.
For example, when you insert a cross fitting between two pipes, the crossing pipes will be automatically divided each into two parts. Their ends will be automatically transformed according to the requested connection type.
Special variables, connectors, LCS and macro provide an automatic link with parameters of other routing elements. The macro is included into the fitting document file.
When you need a new fitting you have to create a 3D model file with a special macros that will be used as a 3D fragment. Creation and usage of each fitting type is described below.
Ready to use library fittings files include the “Smart” suffix in their names. You can enlarge set of such elements if it is necessary.
Fitting gets part of external variables values from the pipeline parameters. For example fitting can get the pipe diameter. Fitting can also pass parameters values to the pipe, if it is set in the fitting file.
Topics in this section:
•External Variables of Fitting