Hi,
I´ve been using Plant 3D for over a decade now and I have (from the start) issues dealing with the built in slope function.
When using the Slope Panel function, it sometimes will be a small direction change in the wrong axis. It´s only a fraction of a millimeter but it can cause problems when stretching segments of the pipe later on when you want to change your pipe routing. I will try to illustrate the problem down below.
Picture down below illustrates a pipe segment that should be 1000mm in all directions with a slope of 1:100 on the horisontal lines. The result is following:
Pipe 1 – x=1000.0065 y=0.0000 z=-10.0001
Pipe 2 – x=0.0065 y=1000.0000 z=-10.0000
Pipe 3 – x=0.0000 y=0.0000 z=1000.6500
Pipe 4 – x=1000.0065 y=0.0000 z=9.3501
For example you can see at Pipe 2 there is a change in the x-axis of 0.0065 mm but it should be 0.
It seems to be in the elbows the missalignment take place so by replacing the elbows some of these problems will dissappear. I don´t know if there´s a setup problem, a spec problem or anything else, but this doesn´t seem to always work.
Maybe this is a Non issue, but for me and some of my colleagues it´s quite annoying that we can´t use this function properly. Probably we miss something obvious in the settings and thats why I reach out in this forum to try to find a solution to this problem.
We are now using a method with centerlines and we need to set plantslopethresholdangle to 0 for our workaround to function properly. This method is quite time consuming but at least we have control of the pipe routing and also it´s easier to edit the pipes.
The settings in Plant 3D is the default settings regarding tolerances etc.
Thanks in advance.
/Henrik
