I need to generate a wraparound template for a 7.5 deg cut on an 18" OD pipe and I just can't remember how to do it?

Anyone shed any light?

look up tube mitre on the web - some good software does it for you as long as you have a printer.

You can get it here Liam http://www.ozhpv.org.au/resources/shed/tubemiter.html
Cheers,
Bob

I had tried tubemitre but the problem is I am interfacing with a flat plate and not another pipe whic it won't let you do I don't think.

I have done it in CAD now though

Cheers

[Edited on 10/6/10 by liam.mccaffrey]

this is the other program,

http://cobratorch.net/ttn_dxf/

Its good cause it does gussets for you (Although seems to fail at the example liam gave).

is that not just a big sinewave.....??

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Originally posted by Bob C
is that not just a big sinewave.....??

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What happened to a set of trammels and a square?

I must be getting old.



Paul G

I've got the equations kicking around somewhere if anyone is interested, and even implemented a new version of tube mitre in python outputting to a pdf for printing later. Should still have it but haven't run it in a while.

ETA: Just tried and there is a problem with the external pdf generation library dependencies.

It might be possible to approximate for a flat join by making giving the tube you are butting against a very large radius relative to the one you are cutting.

[Edited on 10/6/10 by iank]

I appreciate your efforts guys, thanks. I tried using a large rad in tube mitre but it was having trouble displaying such large pipes (18" and above)
Some of the ones we did today didn't fit on an A0 sheet.

I spent an hour on CAD today and could do any size or angle in about 10 mins now.

I am no programmer but as someone else said this would probably be a pretty simple one.

I'm going to blow my own trumpet a bit here as I'd never been shown how to do this and worked it out pretty much from scratch