RE: Pipe lateral connection software

From: <Steve>
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 16:14:00 EDT

Hi Chris

wouldn't it be wonderful to have the time? In the days when I owned a fab shop in Oz, I had a sheetmetal worker make up thin metal templates for "standard" intersections. They worked really well until someone had an urgent requirement for some thin sheetmetal.

Cheers

Steve

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From: Christopher Wright [mailto:chrisw@skypoint.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:38 AM To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Pipe lateral connection software

On Oct 25, 2004, at 11:54 PM, Steve McKenzie wrote:

> Some time ago I saw a computer program which printed the developments
> on paper.

If you get in a corner I think you can make a spreadsheet to do the calculation with Excel, then plot out the points with CAD software. The arithmetic isn't all that hard, and I bet you could fit a spline to just a few points and make a pattern that'd be fine for to burn out by hand. You might even find that your CAD software will do the intersection.

Of course, real engineers would lay it out on a drawing board like my old drafting book shows ;->

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