Key Details

Teaches existing Autodesk Inventor users how to design routed elements, including tubing, piping and flexible hoses.

You’ll learn to add tubing and piping runs to your assemblies, and automatically place tube or pipe segments, elbows and couplings along the route. Sessions include:

• Understanding the tube and pipe environment.
• Setting up routes and runs.
• Placing initial fittings in your tube and pipe design.
• Creating, editing and managing routes and runs for rigid pipe, rigid tube and flexible hose designs.
• Managing content libraries and publishing custom content to libraries.
• Creating styles that use your custom content.
• Creating 2D drawings and parts lists.
• Exporting 3D design data.

Inventor Tube and Pipe Design training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Accredited Inventor training

Armada is an Autodesk Authorised Training Centre (ATC), and our Inventor Tube and Pipe Design courses are :

• Accredited by Autodesk.
• Hosted by Autodesk Certified Instructors with vast experience of using the application professionally. For further details, see Expert trainers.

Training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A highly-practical training guide for Inventor Tube and Pipe Design, to refer to throughout the course, and to use as a refresher afterwards.
• An e-certificate confirming successful completion of an accredited Inventor Tube and Pipe Design training course.

After course support

Following Inventor Tube and Pipe Design training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their Inventor trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be familiar with the fundamentals of Inventor, i.e. have attended Inventor Essentials training or have equivalent knowledge through other means

Inventor version

Training can be based on any recent version of Inventor to suit you.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for Inventor training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Inventor Tube and Pipe Design course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Inventor Tube and Pipe Design course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainer

John Billyard

John has used CAD software for over 35+ years, providing high quality engineering and architectural designs to a wide range of clients

He has provided training in the applications he uses for a similar length of time, and for the last 15 years, has been commissioned directly by Autodesk to provide consulting and training services to their corporate client base.

John hosts courses in various Autodesk applications including AutoCAD, Inventor and Vault. He also trains Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks, Trimble SketchUp and Epic Games’ Twinmotion.

He takes pride in keeping pace with the latest industry design tools and technologies, enabling him meet the challenges and demands of an ever changing working environment.

Course content

Getting Started

• Introduction to Tube and Pipe Design
• Understanding the Tube and Pipe environment

Setting up Routes and Runs

• Setup for routes and runs
• Activating a Tube and Pipe Style
• Placing Initial Fittings in your Tube and Pipe Design

Routes and Runs

• Creating Rigid Routes
• Sketching Rigid Routes for Pipes, Tubes and Self-Draining Pipes
• Working with Fittings in Rigid Routes
• Flexible Hose Routes
• Leveraging Routes and Runs
• Reusing a Run

Fittings and Components

• Managing Libraries
• Creating a Custom Library
• Creating Library Content
• Authoring a Fitting
• Publishing to the Content Centre
• Placing Library Fittings
• Managing Library Content
• Adding a Column to a Part Family
• Creating Tube and Pipe Styles
• Creating Custom Styles
• Creating Self-Draining Styles

Documenting Tube and Pipe Assemblies

• Representing Tube and Pipe Designs
• Creating Modal States
• Documenting Routes and Runs
• Creating 2D drawings and parts lists
• Exporting 3D Tube and Pipe Design Data

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Inventor course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Inventor.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Inventor Tube and Pipe Design courses…

• Are presented by Autodesk Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Inventor.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Inventor installed. If you don’t have a current subscription to Inventor, you’re entitled to a 30-day trial that’s ideal for participating in training. We’ll send you a link to this. If you’ve already used your trial, we can lend you a license for the duration of your course.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Inventor doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t be able to assist with your Inventor installation, but we can provide details for Autodesk support who’ll be able to help you with this.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time