How to join pipes

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SvenGoord
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How to join pipes

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I have spend many hours and can not make join. Is video or tutorial any where?
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Re: How to join pipes

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If it's to be a single solid, then you should model it in one body. There are different possibilities:
- two additive sweeps for the outer part and afterwards two subtractive sweeps to make it hollow.
- two additive sweeps and a thickness operation (wathcout, thickness tends to fail).
- one additive sweep and a mirror followed by a subtractive sweep and a mirror.
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Re: How to join pipes

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SvenGoord wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:01 pm I have spend many hours and can not make join. Is video or tutorial any where?
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Where did you find this image or tutorial? The Arch PipeConnector is a simple command to join two Arch Pipes.

For more advance piping you should use something like the Dodo Workbench, which is the successor to the Flamingo Workbench, one of many external workbenches that are installable through the Addon Manager.
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Re: How to join pipes

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I upload here the mirror/thickness version. I was myself rather surprised that thickness worked so well :) .
Note, that it did not work with the original version of spline-left-outer. After having it fully constrained it worked.
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Re: How to join pipes

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chrisb wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:25 pm I upload here the mirror/thickness version. I was myself rather surprised that thickness worked so well :) .
Note, that it did not work with the original version of spline-left-outer. After having it fully constrained it worked.
Thanks you chrisb I did not find how to restrain spline and hope it was OK and left it. I now see what you do and will remember.

Mirror and thickness work very good, I make a mistake by two pipes hollow before join.

I did not try thickness as last time on different part it made very thin places some time. It works OK here now thank you I should have tried.
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Re: How to join pipes

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vocx wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:14 pm Where did you find this image or tutorial? The Arch PipeConnector is a simple command to join two Arch Pipes.
It is not a image or tutorial, I create it but could not join to make water hollow for both sides.

Thank you, chrisb shows how to do it using no special things. I like to keep Freecad as like download so do not add more things.
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