Connecting a curved and straight pipe.

[alz2real]

Hello dear professionals. I'm working on a car port design where I have a curved pipe (CHS 60.3 x 3) as part of the roofing structure being held up by another straight pipe (48.3 x 3) at and angle of about 60 degrees. I'm trying to connect both with a "Pipes-pinned" connection. As usual, I'm asked to "RBCT_MMACRO Pick main element:" , and then "RBCT_MMACRO Pick secondary element:". The issue I have is that whenever I pick the curved pipe, I get the following msg: "selected profile does not meet criteria of this type of connection". Does that mean I can't connect a curved pipe with  straight pipe via a pinned connection? I have no problem with the other connection as shown in the attached screenshot.  Dear professionals,  please how do I solve this?

[zcsillag]

make the connection manually without macro

[alz2real]

Thanks for your response zcsillag. I had to resort to autocad to get this done (see attachment). So, does that mean AutoCAD Structural Detailing doesn't have the flexibility to do this?

[zcsillag · Accepted solution]

You can do almost anything, but without using macro !