cross sections showing pipes

[Anonymous]

any way to get circular pipes shown in cross section as a circle???? not a hexagon as it shows now?

thanx!

[bruce.jordan · Accepted solution]

Try changing FACETDEV to 0.05 for imperial, and 0.15 for metric HTH -Bruce

[bruce.jordan]

That should be 0.015 for metric (not 0.15)

In short, experiment with the numbers.

The smaller the number, the slower the performance.

-Bruce

[Anonymous]

thanx! nice workaround...

hopefully this seemingly simple functionality is added in next service pack/release!

thanx again!

[Jeff_M]

FWIW, this is not a workaround...for whatever reason it is "as designed". and is even noted as such in the help....See the section "Displaying Pipe Networks in Section Views"

[Anonymous]

you mean to say this was the intent of the programmer? to make the crossing pipes in profile and the cross section of the pipes to be choppy polygons and not a true scaled representation of the x-sectional geometry of the pipe?

this should be built into the software so the appearance is correct

no x-sections or p&p sheets i have ever seen in 20 years in the industry has hexagons representing pipes in x-section for example.....

of course we all drew it in manually and thats why! ha

if autodesk is so nice to push these pipe networks into profile and x-section i would hope we could actually plot these out and use them in a final deliverable....without having to tax our processors with FACETDEV variable....

just my two cents...therefore i thought that was a workaround

thanx for all your time though!

[rkmcswain]

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@Anonymous wrote:

you mean to say this was the intent of the programmer? to make the crossing pipes in profile and the cross section of the pipes to be choppy polygons and not a true scaled representation of the x-sectional geometry of the pipe?

this should be built into the software so the appearance is correct

no x-sections or p&p sheets i have ever seen in 20 years in the industry has hexagons representing pipes in x-section for example.....

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I've always said that if the programmers had to use their own software in real world applications, idiodic things like this would get FIXED very quickly. There is simply no reason for this. I do give them a sliver of credit for including it the HELP files though.