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Merging pipes
maurice_bierman
Member Posts: 2 ✭
Hello,
I've been stuck on this for a while, tried different techniques and this is the best version so far. I'm trying to get the pipes to merge, right now theres a hole where the 3 pipes meet and they collide on the inside. Would love some advice!
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9edada587b000a13e9fcac62/w/501e322d1d83b8dc87412164/e/95dc10e8eb14e239a23087be?renderMode=0&uiState=6710ffa33a459e5d1dc23088
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Are you able to clean this angle up? or does it have to be at that angle?
@maurice_bierman
You may want to look into the "frame"command. Here is a link to a sample of your type of part (not to scale)
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/27563cde1fcca66e459c5839/w/3f3593a55c20c2efeee84757/e/251430f25978a8e7fea2469a
Using frames will require some "getting acquainted time", but I think you can see it's a pretty light workflow (do a section view on the top plane). There are probably half a dozen ways to model this part, this is just one idea. You could just sweep a solid, then shell.
If you need to have it at that angle. then I suggest a sketch plane on that construction line. like this and redefine sketch 3 to use that new plane. like this.