Pipe bending or cutting at small angles

[cserkuthyandris]

Hello!

Could somebody maybe help me in this case?

Under ~10 degree in the shop sometimes we are bending the pipes with a bending machine or if it's smaller degree like 2-3, we are cutting the pipes end in a small degree and then weld together. When I draw a Design Line and fill in 3D, at a small angle it left a big gap and I need there to bend a pipe, or if its smaller degree, joint the two pipe together with the top points, not the centerline because if the node point is in the center, and we will cut a small piece of pipe from the end in angle, the pipe will be smaller.

Thank you in advance!

Andras

[Anonymous]

I am certain I am not following everything your saying, but you might consider making elbows (call them bends) with the same connectivity as your weld joint; this way it can direct connect with pipe.

Create a Bend ITM and set it to 10° with optional angle tolerance of 10° and make sure you don't have a competing elbow within that range using the same button code and it should be used for anything between 0° and 20°. Maybe you only want this to happen in very small angles though? In that case you would just reducer base angle & tolerance settings.

Note:

You may need to make one side of the elbow a connectivity that would add a weld and the other that wouldn't, but having bends/elbows for all various degrees (with no overlap within tolerances) is the only way I can think to simulate a bend instead of a welded fitting at specific degrees.