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At my last job...   Our supports were on the outside of the piping model..   95% of ours was based on mounting using u-bolts/washers/nuts..

-So the frame had the mounting slots and supporting angle structure for it.  Then when the frame and piping model came together, that's where the u-bolts would appearing in the model and BOM.   The only downside to this..  If the pipe run changed elevation or was re-routed, we had to update the frame.   But most times we didn't layout the mounting information until we were close to locking down the piping runs.

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To be honest, all these options slow and cumbersome.

Adding them as branch fittings is a pain to edit and it breaks route constraints.

If you are looking for more details, kindly visit 50mm pipe clips.

Constraining them is not a great option because on tubing with bends (or hoses) you loose ALL constraints if you edit the route. It doesn't matter if the route doesn't change direction, doesn't matter if you only increase a dimension by the smallest amount possible, the constraints need redefining.

I have never tried to place the pipe clips first and include centerline geometry for a couple of reasons. Clamps are secondary items to me, the pipe route is most important and, especially on skids, where I would create several iterations before final version I need the flexibility and speed to edit fast and moving each clamp would be too slow for me.

I recommend that you author everything, even pump, filters, etc. just because it's so much easier to get a straight connection rather than Inventor computing all the circular edges.

Once you finish all those variants you are happy with the layout start placing pipe clips, choose wherever is easier for you, top assembly, tube, and pipe assembly. Just place them with constraints or joints and if your style is Pipe with Fittings they will update and move with the route.

If, however, you have Tubing with Bends then here's what you can do.

Placed and constrained all the pipe clips, and then demoted them into a separate assembly, which you can make phantom for BOM considerations, and then suppressed all the constraints and grounded the clamps.

If you need to move them you can use iProperties, Occurrence tab, and edit the  "Current Offset from Parrent Assembly Origin". Say you need to move a clamp 50mm left you can enter "-50" at the current "X OFFSET:" value.

Sadly you can't edit multiple items at once but it's easy to write an iLogic code to move "selected components" by vector direction with prompted value.

...SLOW and CUMBERSOME...

One of the ideas on tube and pipe improvements is to permit nodes to be inserted as an overlay rather than breaking the route. They will just sit on the route and you will dimension them as any element but they don't break the segments. Now that I could use as pipe clip insertion point!

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