Join Pipes Smoothly?
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Tubes which are linear - like the horizontal parts - can be easily extruded as tubes - that is if those path edges are welded into one continuous curve - perhaps with a transitional arc joining the straight bits.
Like my PipeAlongPath...
If you have an L junction a welded path will also extrude as you hope.
Add a transitional arc at the elbow if you don't want a right-angle mitered bend.
When you have a 'T' of a tube meeting another tube at something like a right-angle, then make the two parts, then use Fredo's RoundCorner tool to make a proper 'filleted' joint - i.e. just like you'd get with a real-world 'weld'...
If the scale of the modeling doesn't warrant such detail, then simply 'intersect' the two parts and delete the unwanted geometry...
You'll need to do some exploding/combining of geometry if parts gets grouped as you make them... -
Just thinking - you could use vertex tools to merge close vertices. That may work to clean up the breaks at each bend in one shot.
Edit: looked at the model - that works only for the smaller bends. For the perpendicular intersections, not much help there.
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That sounds like the labor I had envisioned Tig. I was really hoping for a clickable cure.
Andybot, that did work, but each vert had to be welding 1 at a time. again pretty time consuming.
And all of these work-arounds seem like more work that just rebuilding the roll bars.
I guess that will have to do.Thanks for all the suggestions.
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@krisidious said:
That sounds like the labor I had envisioned Tig. I was really hoping for a clickable cure.
Andybot, that did work, but each vert had to be welding 1 at a time. again pretty time consuming.
And all of these work-arounds seem like more work that just rebuilding the roll bars.
I guess that will have to do.Thanks for all the suggestions.
There's no such thing as a free-lunch !
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Fredo Lines2Tubes
I guess it will do... I wish it were welded though.
Took longer here wrting and answering... But, I'd still rather have a pipe plugin that saw this geometry and knew I wanted 3" pipe in that general shape and welded.
Or am I back to the new Profile Builder?
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rollbar5.jpg is why I put a sphere at each vertex. That eliminates the outside gaps.
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a roll bar is one solid piece and the less pieces the better on the system.
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@krisidious said:
Andybot, that did work, but each vert had to be welding 1 at a time. again pretty time consuming.
I selected all the vertices and used "merge close vertices" with a distance of 0.3 Much quicker than if you do it individually.
It deletes some faces in the back though, but generate faces fixed that pretty easily. Also need to remove inner faces (There's a plugin for that
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@pilou - Vertex Tools
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