angled arc
angled arc
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Hey all, how is the best way to create a angled arc. I.E, say the arc is created on the xy plane, but you wanted it to tilt in to the z axis aswell???
Sorry for the noob question
Sorry for the noob question
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RE: angled arc
RE: angled arc
Thanks
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Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: angled arc
Basically i have 4 exhaust outlets (circles), they will then be pair up in to one down pipe (so left two joined and right two joined). The plan was to do this via the sweep function and unite, then the two new down pipes to be joined into one. Do you think it would be better to create the pipe with out uniting, then unite then after all pipes are dont??
RE: angled arc
Try using assembllies and put each pipe and the collector into their own detail files and then bring them together in the assembly file.
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Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: angled arc
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But - if you only click once and it selects both circles, it sounds like preselection isn't the problem.
RE: angled arc
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: angled arc
RE: angled arc
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: angled arc
You may also wish to visit here: http://support.ugs.com/html/conferencing.shtml & look through the newsgroups, which you will need a valid Webkey account to view. Your webkey log in info is in your UG license file, just open it with a text editor to view it.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: angled arc
I the taper by, having two circles, about 5 cm away from each other, and of different diameters (small on above the larger one) I then tried to taper by selecting both the circles, but it just came up with an error. I then adding a qaudrant point to each circle and join them up to try to taper the top circle along that line, but instead of tapering it it just extruded it at an angle??
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Your options narrow considerably if it is a bent pipe that you want to have tapered. If this is the case I would recommend either freeform swept or through curve mesh.
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If you don't have enough known info for the cylinder, then instead of putting points on the quadrants, TRIM the circles so that they are both 180 degrees, then mirror the resulting arcs to get 2 arcs making a complete circle. Make sure you perform the trim at the same location for both circles. Once you have that, the Freeform Feature called Through Curves will give you what you want unless you have a guide path that is not straight. Refer to following image:
I made the 2 arcs different colors to display the trims for you. Just select the curves in similar locations & everything should align OK for you.
If your guide path is not straight, you want to use the Freeform Feature called Swept. When you use Swept, you will have to have a guide or path curve that defines the path the circles are swept along. In the following image, I made the surfaces translucent so you could see the guide curves, which are orange. Again, select the circles in similar locations to avoid twisting about the guide.
Hope this helps.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: angled arc
In addition to Cowski & Tim's valuable input, if your circles are coaxial, you can simply create a cone (Form Feature->Cone->Two Coaxial Arcs.) This saves a couple steps if you have a straight guide path and won't need to modify tapers later.