Make pipes easier for tubulars/pipes frames professionnals designers

 From:  tyglik
1463.33 In reply to 1463.31 
Hi Will,

>>Well I tried for example drawing a circle for the profile, I offset the circle to make a smaller one (inner diameter)
>>- I selected both circles, executed the sweep command and then selected my squiggly line
>>- only the outer diameter circle was used for the sweep...

No, both circles were used for sweeping!



I agree it would be fantastic if MoI was able to handle this kind of sweeping as well. Brian mentioned one viable way - sweeping a planar surface. However I guess it is not impossible to identify this as a special case and do sweeping properly in order we can get a tubular shape:
-both curves are planar
-both curves are lying on the same plane
-one of them is completely inside the other

What do you feel about it, Michael?


edit: And generally, if there was more than two rails selected, MoI would sweep a profile(s) along each rail individually. It would allow "handling a larger number of curves at once" :)


Petr

EDITED: 18 Mar 2008 by TYGLIK

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