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How to make 5km pipe with XYZ points?

How to make 5km pipe with XYZ points?

How to make 5km pipe with XYZ points?

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I'm trying to make a model of 5Km pipe from the insert curve which includes 7000 XYZ points' data. By using sweep feature, the finished pipe looks like kinked somewhere. Does anyone have good idea to fix it? Or I should use routing and piping.

Thanks

Ellen Jin

RE: How to make 5km pipe with XYZ points?

You will not be able to produce a part which is more than 1km long. It is a limitation of SW. You will have to create it as an assy.

cheers

RE: How to make 5km pipe with XYZ points?

The routing add-in won't help you out either.

Dan

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RE: How to make 5km pipe with XYZ points?

Well, my understanding of the 1 Km. limit is that it has to be inside of a 1 kilometre cube, centered at the origin (so 500 m. on each side of the origin).

If your tube is not straight and folds back and forth within that cube it should be OK, but I guess it depends on what you are doing.

Otherwise, as CBL mentioned, assemblies can now be more than the 1 Km limit in SW 2009. The parts are still limited by the 1Km. cube though.

Cheers.
 

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