Make pipes easier for tubulars/pipes frames professionnals designers

 From:  Michael Gibson
1463.27 In reply to 1463.21 
Hi Will,

> I'd love to add this to the Draw Solid menu! Wasn't there a
> tip around here on how to add command buttons somewhere?

What you do is use a text editor like notepad to open up the sidepane.htm file which is in the \ui subfolder underneath MoI's main installation folder.

You'll see in there that each button is a <moi:CommandButton> tag, and you can add a new one in there as well for Pipe if you want.

There is some more information here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1290.4
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1173.1

Let me know if you get stuck. I don't have an icon prepared for that though.



> PS - I noticed if you set an inner radius, and then blank the
> field (as it is initially), the pipe still retains the last inner radius
> entered. You have to enter '0' to actually remove the inner radius...

Let me know if this is a much of a problem - it should be possible to correct this, but it looks like you already know how to solve it! :)


> PPS - Would it be possible to add a pick option for a custom profile shape?

Well, at that point you are not really getting any benefit compared to sweep, except for handling a larger number of curves at once, is that what you need to do?

- Michael