Railworks America

Hi,

I need to make a pipe that looks like this.



Except I don't know of an "easy" way how. The piper plugin only works around one axis, not two.

Try using the PipeEngineer plugin, that will create pipes in all views.

dick8299 wrote:Try using the PipeEngineer plugin, that will create pipes in all views.

Hi, that doesn't achieve the effect that I want.



The underlined areas are two cylinders that connected by the pipe in question. This pipe connects to the 'back' of each cylinder.

I just made this very quickly with PiperEngineer - it sure looks to me like it will solve your problem.

What they're saying is build the pipe in sections. Don't try to get pipe engineer to build the whole thing in one shot. Do it in sections and you'll be fine. I do this all the time, work. If you look in my All Aboard forum down below, there's one steel mill building with conduit something like you're trying to do. Each bend is a section to itself sometimes right after a previous bend or with a straight inbetween. Hope this helps. I maybe using piper instead of pipe engineer. ? - Rich

Actually, I combined an elongated cube and half of a cylinder, and did build this pipe all at one time. After the pipeengineer ran, there were three separate pipes that I combined, and then I rotated that around the z axis 45 degrees.

I personally use pipe engineer all the time.

With your shape... you could easily make it vertical and add the inward tilt (x direction) by using object properties and rotate it slightly in the Z axis.

It works great. I even save my MASTER shapes for later use. Do we need a tutorial? ...or is "how" to use it pretty clear.

Here is a real quick, 1 step pipe shape, for example.

I got it figured out now, it's a brilliant little tool that will help a lot.

pwillard wrote:Do we need a tutorial? ...or is "how" to use it pretty clear.

I believe a little tutorial on this subject would be of great value...

qrfan3 wrote:I believe a little tutorial on this subject would be of great value...

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