Functional Value

1. Improve usability and completeness of flexible hose design to address industry needs:

- Shorten the learning curve by unifying the user interface to be similar to the one of bended tube routing.

- Provide a more accurate shape definition based on slack specification and management taking into account internal pressure and tube physical characteristics

2. Better design quality by respecting predefined system specification and design rules by:

- retrieving any attributes from schematic tubing line to filter the allowed physical components

- retrieving compatibility rules to filter allowed physical components during automatic placement

User Experience Value

Facilitate easier learning for new users by introducing a fourth 3D Manipulator for node creation for bended tube routing.