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Pipe Construction

To generate a Pipe in the Main Menu select New Entity - > Generation - > Extrusion along a path


Firstly, to create an extruded Pipe shape, you can define the Base Object (vertex, edge, planar wire, face or shell), which will be extruded and the Path Object (edge or wire) along which the Base Object will be extruded.
It is possible to select in GUI several Base Objects to make several pipes (using Shift button).
In this mode the default pipe generation algorithm is used. The pipe is created so that the angle between the normal vector to the base shape and the tangent to the path wire remains constant at any point of the given path.
Select unpublished edges checkbox - if checked, allows to select an edge of any other shape as the path object.
The Result of the operation will be a GEOM_Object (edge, face, shell, solid or compsolid).


TUI Command: geompy.MakePipe(baseShape, pathShape)
Arguments: Name + 1 shape (vertex, edge, planar wire, face or shell) serving as base object + 1 shape (edge or wire) for definition of the path.
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Example:

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Extrusion of a wire


Secondly, you can define the Base Object (edge, planar wire or face), which will be extruded, the Path Object (edge or wire) along which the Base Object will be extruded and the BiNormal Vector (edge or wire).


In contrast to the default mode, in this mode the pipe is generated to preserve the constant angle between the normal vector to the base shape and the BiNormal vector given as the third argument.
Select unpublished edges checkbox - if checked, allows to select an edge of any other shape as the path object.
The Result of the operation will be a GEOM_Object (edge, face, shell, solid or compsolid).


TUI Command: geompy.MakePipeBiNormalAlongVector(baseShape, pathShape, binormalShape)
Arguments: Name + 1 shape (edge, planar wire or face) serving as base object + 1 shape (edge or wire) for definition of the path + 1 shape (edge or wire) to set a fixed BiNormal direction to perform the extrusion.

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Example:

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Extrusion of a face with BiNormal parameter

Our TUI Scripts provide you with useful examples of creation of Complex Geometric Objects.

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