In Reply to: pipe design posted by Felipe Coron on October 23, 2001 at 22:26:30:
This solid command is available in CADKEY and should be available in most other ACIS based solid modelers, including ACAD and MDT.
Position a circular profile at one end o f the pipe path then use the sweep command , the circle and the path to create a solid core representation of the pipe.
The pipe can usually be easily opened at both ends with the shell command but to create a true hollow pipe, CADKEY provides a dedicated Pipe command. With this command there is no need to position the circular profile. The ID and OD are specified in the creation menu then you select the path.
Brian Vierstra
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