Pipe Parts: Knees (PE)

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Like Elbows, you can also place parts of the type Knee onto individual or, automatically, on all corners of a guideline. In contrast to the Elbows, these parts do not necessarily need to be symmetrical. Therefore you can select the insertion direction here.

Pipe part type: Knee

The procedure is basically the same as for Elbows, with the difference that the guideline is processed as follows:

• The knee is automatically inserted in such a way that the intersection point of the centre lines of the pipe connection is set on the selected guideline corner.
• The edges that previously converged in the guideline corner are divided at the connecting points of the knee. The edges that now converge in the corner are set to Layer 0.

(a) Original guideline; (b) Guideline with knee; (c) Layer 0 visible

This part type allows the creation of branchings by means of saddle connections or pipes with smaller diameters, via cylindrical sections ending in a connecting surface. Click here for further information.

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