There are a lot many brep edges at the meeting point of each of these lines, also at the ends,
and the capping happens at all the end points of the pipe incuding the meeting pointpipe_re.gh (24.2 KB)
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Is there a cleaner way to make these hllow pipes with say 5mm thickness. The output should be a mesh which is to be used for further analysis on autodesk inventor.
A union mesh of the pipe should be the output.Since I am analyzing material in inventor using Nastran, these pipes must be in single mesh with thickness.
My suggestion for these types of situations is always - make a sphere at the intersection point whose radius is just slightly larger than that of the pipes; then union that with the pipes.
So what I am trying to do again here is, taking the end points of the line, Define a plane with normal using a vector created by the end points of the line.
Create two circles of internal and external dia, loft the outer both and the inner both.Then cap it.
But what about the joints though
Also loft not happening.
before use thickness ; apply flat cap to the pipes than use union to create one brep than deconstruct the brep and remove the caps and apply thickness.
your have include kangaroo component which i don’t have and i can’t see the pipes correctly
Hi Seghier Khaled. There is a long process of generating points to lines to pipes.Therefore I use the same file for generating pipes.Thank you for your time.This worked, nevertheless in some cases solid union isn’t working.