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    Rich.O.3d
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    Registered: ‎08-19-2008

    more bugs/crap content/broken tools - U-Bracket

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    08-28-2012 10:13 PM

    I want to add a saddle clamp to a steel pipe, the pipe is to be hard up against the steel member it sits on.

     

    When trying to add a 'u-bracket' from the pipe supports tool,

    plant is insisting on having a positive dimension in the 'BH' field.

     

    the tooltip says that if BL of BW are 0 or -1, then no pipe pad will be drawn

    if i have them at 0, no pad is drawn (as expected)

    it will not allow me to have a -1 in the BL or BW fields

     

    when not using a pipe pad (BL & BW are set to 0), it is still insisting on a non zero positive number in the BH field, any dimension here will force the legs of the strap into the adjacent steelwork!

     

    is this considered a bug

    is this going to be fixed

    is there a better work around than using a tiny value [say 0.1mm] for BH (and living with the 0.1mm interference)

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