Why is this pipe twisting?

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Another one for today: )

I’ve got a curve in the attached file, that I ran Pipe on, and – for some reason-- the pipe is twisting at one of the bends.

I looked at the curve carefully (turned on control points) and I do not see anything odd.

Any thoughts?Why is this pipe twisting.3dm (261.4 KB)

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Okay. I thought that maybe it was the fillet I applied to the corners where the pipe goes from horizontal to vertical, and so I built another curve without fillets at that point and when I ran pipe, – it didn’t twist. I wonder if this would give us a clue as to what caused the above file (Why is this pipe twisting.3dm) to twist?

Thank you.

CosmasThis one didn’t twist.3dm (237.3 KB)

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Hi Cosmas- for some reason, orienting the cross section as it twists through World Z has always been problematic- I don’t know the details… the one that works starts and stops (miter) and I guess this is why it is OK. I guess the workaround is to do the porblematic pipe in bits - in this case not too painful, you can explode the curve, keep them all selected and Pipe, Cap=None. Join the result and Cap (if needed).

-Pascal

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Thank you, Pascal. That’s what I did.