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Support on sloped pipe

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:50:42 GMT

Hello everybody. I have one problem. I have plant2017 and i want to rotate support on required angle. But everytime when i try it has wcs coordinates (support has one fixed plane) But I have on my project supports (same as not rotated) which are rotates with sloped pipe. So my question is how it is possible. Rotated supports was migrated from plnt2014. I tried everything with 3D rotate, change settings of mine support but without success. I attach printscreen of my problem. Many thanks for help and advices.

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h_eger — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:50:20 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

You have to switch to the view of your pipeline, after that it works over rotate.
It only works every 2 times

http://autode.sk/2kWG16X

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Anonymous — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:23:02 GMT

Many thanks but I cant achieved your results. Your video is cutted on the edges and language of plant is set to German. Could you record your video in English with full size of your screen or write to me whole process step by step. Thanks to you

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h_eger — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:00:08 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Screencast does not work with 4k resolution.
Sorry!

The next time will be sure to produce the video in English

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Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 07:46:18 GMT

Thanks to answer, but can you send to me whole process step by step (word or notepad or pdf)? I will be very thankful. Because from that video i dont get it and when i rotate that support i get disconnected part. Thanks

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ryan.bales — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:50:04 GMT

Currently this is not possible. The only solution is the workaround @h_eger posted and or the following with a block based version:

1-Select the pipe support not correctly oriented

2-Explode that support to a block reference

3-Rotate the support from the refrence point with the exact value of the slope Angle (should be the insertion point in the middle of the pipe)

(Before rotating you may need to change UCS orientation to perform a 2d rotation correctly, or eventually directly a 3d rotate)

4-Convert the block (the exploded support) to a support via PLANTPIPESUPPORTCONVERT by selecting an insertion point in the sloped pipe.

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MarcJaye.Genoza — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:44:30 GMT

is there a way to create a pipe support that can auto aligned to sloped pipes?

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h_eger — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:47:03 GMT

no Still not!

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MarcJaye.Genoza — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:49:19 GMT

thank you so much