Advanced connectivity

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NARRATOR: In this course, we will

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focus on advance connectivity in your connectors.

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This is part of item creation for fabrication

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and the final step in understanding item connectors.

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I'd like to show you the benefits of understanding

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the connectivity group ans the end type in the connector

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that'll make your modeling more efficient and correct.

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In previous videos we built this gate valve.

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Let's see what it's going to take to put in the gate valve

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in the components that are needed.

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We would add a piece of pipe, then

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you would add a weld, flange, gasquet, our gate valve,

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another gasquet, another flange, another weld,

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and a piece of pipe.

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That gets everything put in.

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But with the connectivity group in the end type

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we can have it do all of this in one fell swoop.

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Let me show you.

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Take these out.

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Now you should be able to cut this in

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and it brings in everything just like we

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did without you having to select each item individually.

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Now how does it do that?

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Let's break this apart and show you.

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Let's look at each item and see what the connectivity group is

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and what the end type is.

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Our pipe is welded with an end type of male.

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I'll do a screenshot and we'll get it marked up.

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Now that I have it marked up, let's go through this.

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Looks a little bit daunting at first but step by step

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we should be able to understand it.

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We have the piece of pipe in.

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When we cut in the valve, the first thing it looks at

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is this connector, and it sees that it

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is a welded connectivity group with an end type of male.

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So the first thing it's going to look for in your service

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and it's going to go in order, it's

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going to search through it until it finds

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a welded with a female end.

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And when it comes to the weld, that's

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where it finds its match.

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So then it throws the weld in.

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Then it goes to the other side of the weld

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and looks at its connector and it's the same.

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So then it's going to come back through here

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and it's going to go until it finds another match which

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needs to be welded and male.

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And it finds That in the flange, attaches the flange to it.

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And then this is where we switch from welded to class 125, 150.

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On this side of the flange it is male.

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So it's going to look for a class 125, 150 female.

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It searches through, it finds it in the gasket.

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Same thing the other side, searches through,

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has to come up to the gate valve and sees a male class

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And then just reverse order on the back side.

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Now remember the loop starts with the item

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that you're cutting in.

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So let me show you another example.

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We'll put in the same four inch piece of pipe.

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Instead of cutting in the vows we will cut in the flange.

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Now the reason it didn't come back up

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here is the loop starts with what you're cutting in.

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And so the flange saw the first match being the gasket

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and then it goes to loop back through

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and it sees the other side of the flange and puts that in.

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In this scenario, we're going to take it up one more notch.

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This switch lock VCR fittings require

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five items for one connection.

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So let's cut in the gland into our 1/2 inch piece of tubing.

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And we get all five pieces that come in at once.

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Let's break this apart and see how it works.

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The glan has an orbital weld just like our last example.

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But then on the right connection we're going to use

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a connectivity group called gland/ joint and the end type

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will be male.

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Pulling it apart, I took a screenshot

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and started labeling it.

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I labeled it with a connector name, the end type,

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and the connectivity group.

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That way as it strung across we should

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be able to see how they can connect because first it

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looks at the connectivity group, then it looks at the end tape

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to see if it's a match.

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So then the next one I labeled the connectivity group glan

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joint so that this gland and this nut that

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connects to the gland can connect to each other using

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male and female.

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And then on this side of the nut,

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the connectivity group is VCR.

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I made male and female.

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The gasket I switched on this site and called it

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VCR joint female and male and VCR joint for the male nut.

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And then on this one, glan joint again

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because we're reversing from over here

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from male to female and then the welded pipe.

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So when you break it down like this,

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you get to go across and see connection connection,

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connection connection.

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Each one has the same connectivity group.

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And then either one has to connect together

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or male and female, male and female, female male,

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female male, and so forth.

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When you lay out this, you can make it work.

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Now with this many connectivity groups,

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it makes it much easier in your model.

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Now we can literally take any one of these

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and they'll all come in the same.

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We can cut in our gland like we showed before

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and everything comes in.

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We could cut in the female nut and everything comes in,

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the male nut or even the gasket.

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Makes it much easier for modeling.

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The detailer can just grab anything they need

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and put it into place.