topic Re: Space diagonal pipe in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Space diagonal pipe

wersy — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:30:54 GMT

Hi,

I want to connect two ends of pipes which are in offset arrangement and different heights.
Furthermore, the radius of all pipe elbows shall be r = 45 mm.

Can anybody please tell me how I can do this?

Thank you.

Re: Space diagonal pipe

lichtzeichenanlage — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:09:46 GMT

@wersy: Im a beginner. New to F360, CAD etc. I like your question and I'm looking forward to see the solution. Meanwhile I would like to show you a different approach to solve your problem by redraw everything.

In F360 a Sketch is not 2D but 3D. Because of this behavior I would draw everything in one sketch. You can move the lines within the sketch or outside the sketch. That doesn't matter.

Re: Space diagonal pipe

wersy — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:54:58 GMT

Thank you for your help, I know this method but in my case it would be by far to complicate

My example shows only a part of the system.
I have several short pipes which are in different space diagonal positions.

Now I need to get connections beween them. I hope it goes with 3D lines, as it works in other programs.

Re: Space diagonal pipe

laughingcreek — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 18:19:08 GMT

Are you asking how to add a section of pipe between the 2 existing ends?

In that case, simplest thing would be to roll timeline back and add a line segment between the 2 lines you already have.

Re: Space diagonal pipe

wersy — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 18:47:36 GMT

Thank you, I tried this also before.
The problem I stiil have is to fillet the lines to get elbows (r = 45 mm)

Re: Space diagonal pipe

laughingcreek — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 02:02:01 GMT

Oh, now I think I understand. Here's one way. Involves making a sketch at each transition using "plane through 2 edges" and putting a sketch on the new plane.

Re: Space diagonal pipe

laughingcreek — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 02:05:40 GMT

and a second way, this one using components and joints. In this example I did a "past/new" for each component so they could each have a unique length and elbow angle. if you standardize what lengths or angles you want to use, you can just do a regular paste

Re: Space diagonal pipe

wersy — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:37:07 GMT

Thank you again, all this doesn't solve the problem because the pipes I have to connect arise from special positions in a twisted wing.

The resulting angles of the elbows are space diagonal that means complex to calculate.

But your help finally brought me to the solution 🙂

The trick is, to use the last sketch and draw lines back to the start.

This way you get the entire pipe route in one sketch which can be used as usual.