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09-09-2010 08:44 AM
any way to get circular pipes shown in cross section as a circle???? not a hexagon as it shows now?

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09-09-2010 10:08 AM in reply to: pardo242724
Try changing FACETDEV to 0.05 for imperial, and 0.15 for metric HTH -Bruce

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09-09-2010 10:14 AM in reply to: bruce.jordan

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That should be 0.015 for metric (not 0.15)

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09-09-2010 11:52 AM in reply to: pardo242724

thanx! nice workaround...

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09-09-2010 12:46 PM in reply to: pardo242724

FWIW, this is not a workaround...for whatever reason it is "as designed". and is even noted as such in the help....See the
section "Displaying Pipe Networks in Section Views"
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09-09-2010 01:13 PM in reply to: pardo242724

you mean to say this was the intent of the programmer? to make the crossing pipes in profile and the cross section of the
pipes to be choppy polygons and not a true scaled representation of the x-sectional geometry of the pipe?
this should be built into the software so the appearance is correct
no x-sections or p&p sheets i have ever seen in 20 years in the industry has hexagons representing pipes in x-section for
example.....
of course we all drew it in manually and thats why! ha
if autodesk is so nice to push these pipe networks into profile and x-section i would hope we could actually plot these out
and use them in a final deliverable....without having to tax our processors with FACETDEV variable....
just my two cents...therefore i thought that was a workaround
thanx for all your time though!
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06-06-2011 09:35 AM in reply to: pardo242724

pardo242724 wrote:
you mean to say this was the intent of the programmer? to make the crossing pipes in profile and the cross section of
the pipes to be choppy polygons and not a true scaled representation of the x-sectional geometry of the pipe?
this should be built into the software so the appearance is correct
no x-sections or p&p sheets i have ever seen in 20 years in the industry has hexagons representing pipes in x-section
for example.....

I've always said that if the programmers had to use their own software in real world applications, idiodic things like this
would get FIXED very quickly. There is simply no reason for this. I do give them a sliver of credit for including it the
HELP files though.
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