Intersecting multiple pipes

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Published 2013-05-21
In this Rhino 5 tutorial, learn how to model a smooth intersection between multiple pipe surfaces.

All Comments (20)
  • wow! what a great, simple easy to follow instruction. thank you so much for your help. this really taught me a lot of commands i was not familiar with!
  • @f.d.6667
    Woha... with a few workarounds, it's even working in old Rhino 4.0 (using PIPE on surface edges to make up for the missing fillet functionality. Awesome!
  • @paulabarros8023
    When you blend the crv's the resulting crv will always folow the srf? or you need to specify something when dioing teh comand?
  • @Nina-rp8df
    would I be able to intersect pipes that have different initial and final diameters so that the cross section is different at the ends and then continue with the sane process of edge blending as you do here? For example, your pipes start and end with the same diameter when you extrude them. But instead, you manually make pipes that start and end with different diameters so that if you were to continue extruding the pipe they would have different cross sectional areas but the intersection point of each of these pipes can still undergo this blending technique as long as you take the same steps as you did?
  • I'm trying to do a fillet on a ring and a round extrusion that sits 90º degrees on the side of the extrusion. Somehow following your method isn't working.. The ring is laying horizontally and the extrusion stands up in a vertical position.
  • @300mcash2
    is there a way to detect intersecting pipes (surface) or intersecting lines (curves) ? I want to draw an electric panel with many cables but drawing cables and turning them into thin pipes becomes complicated, i can't have any of the cables intersect each other
  • @s.a.1083
    now how to you do it with pipes of varying diameters and that intersect at odd angles?