Wish for pipe tool

[dmoyes]

Any chance you could have a rectangular option. With adjustable side options of course. It would make a nice addition to the toolbox.

Thanks,
Dennis

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hi Dennis -

As you may know the cheap way to get this now is to make a pipe and ChangeDegree to 1 in the ‘around’ direction.
FacetedPipes.3dm (134.9 KB)

-Pascal

[jason]

You can check out this thread for a Python Script for Square and Rectangle pipes.

Square pipe script

Is there a square pipe script written in python? I found this script, but RhinoScript does not work on the mac. http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/scriptsamples/squarepipe Is there a rewrite of this script or something like it that I can use? Any help would be appreciated.

[dmoyes]

Did not know that! Still, it would be nice to have a rectangular option in the command itself.

Dennis

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hi Dennis - it would need to be another tool - any non-circular shape would need to have some UI to orient the shape, and maybe other UI to place and orient more shapes… it gets a little more complicated than just Pipe. But yes, potentially a handy tool.

-Pascal

[dmoyes]

Oh, well. Probably better then to stick with sweep or loft then.