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    • frascatiF Offline
      frascati
      last edited by

      Hello,
      I've used taper maker before. this time i'd like to draw a tapered pipe with beveled/angled ends.

      http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/svejkovat/intakejpeg_zpsc01c7e30.jpg

      The pipe is straight. both ends are beveled on both axis.

      The tutorial at the end of the following page
      http://www.drawmetal.com/tapermaker
      appears to offer this possibility, but I cannot seem to find the option/panel they've opened for the tutorial so help me.

      http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/svejkovat/FireShotScreenCapture001-tapermaker-www-www_drawmetal_com_tapermaker_zpse61d4755.png

      Is it another plugin that they don't mention or presume I have?

      Is there presently any other plugin that will do this more elegantly?
      By that I mean skipping all the data input and simply requiring selecting all three objects, both ends and the line of travel, and clicking "enter".

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      • frascatiF Offline
        frascati
        last edited by

        maybe a good thing that I didn't figure it out the plugin. after looking at it for a while i realized it would be much easier to simply turn that top bevel to face the bottom one and then I only have one odd angle to deal with when making this. All i wanted was a sketch to pull dimensions from in order to cut and tig weld this up. I was actually able to do that better, in this case, without the plugin.

        http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/svejkovat/123_zps7bd1d01e.jpg

        I'd be grateful for any response however to my basic question on how to sketch a tapered pipe with two off axis end faces. The only option in Tapermaker, it seems, is to make certain the path between parts terminates perpendicularly to the face you want angled. There are many many cases though in which that is not the result wanted.

        Using the rotate tool to move the faces into the required degree of bevel won't work either since the cross section to the extruded path changes as you tilt it.

        I realize there are "more ways to....." in sketchup, like push/pull the face into a solid before rotating it, intersecting it with model, and then erasing away the excess. I'm surprised that there is not a plugin that eliminates such time consuming work-arounds.

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          Missy_X
          last edited by

          Try Curviloft 😉 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28586

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          • gillesG Offline
            gilles
            last edited by

            Draw the path, select it then

            " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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