Today has been my first attempt to reach out for help with this program. As with most things I do... trial and error have always been my modus. It sure is easier with the help of everyone here. My Thanks ... again. I tried for hours to make the threaded end of a fitting, but am stuck with this (see attached). Eventually. As Chief Dan George was told by Teddy Roosevelt, "Endeavor to persevere".
By the way, thanks for the unique pipe work, Box. I'll try follow me again.
Sorry Dave,
Who is Dan anyway? I had selected the end of the conduit after turning on the hidden geometry but I didn't do enough clickin'. Massimo had the ticket to that!
"If the ends came out as ellipses when you tried to use Follow Me, that would indicate that you didn't put the profile perpendicular to the starting segment of the path."
You are correct. I didn't do that, because I really am a beginner. Do everything the hard way (more than once). Had I known to put the profile perpendicular I would have. Now I'll open a new drawing and see If I can't figure out how to do what you have described.
Again, Thank You Very Much for Your Time.
Re: Shape Bender Results
Postby Box » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:17 pm
It might also be worth pointing out that you could make the pipe much more easily using a path a profile and the follow me tool.
Thanks Box, I tried that initially, but the ends of the conduit comes out as an ellipse, not round. Tried compensating for the ellipse by rotating it but that didn't work either. The conduit came out great with shape bender, if I can only learn to unsoften everything.
Thanks Dan. I selected "Hidden Geometry" under View, found "Soften Edges" under Window, the Soften Edges dialog pops up, but its blurry or not active, can't use it. How do I unsoften it? My solution has been to draw a new face over the end of the conduit, it works okay but I'd prefer to do it correctly.
It appears I have another problem now. Successful drawing of a 1" PVC conduit with a 30 degree bend, but one end is blurry. Tried to edit the component, but this end is not selectable. I'd like both ends of the conduit to look the same. The other end looks fine.
I tried your suggestion Frenchy, the results are the same, hard angles, no curves. ???
Thank you for the quick response.
Can someone tell me why my attempt to use shape bender results in a hard angle bend instead of a curve?
