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Pipe coping with surface flatten

Pipe coping with surface flatten - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Pipe coping with surface flatten

- [Instructor] In this week's example, I'm gonna be showing you an easy way to create a fish-mouthed tube connection that looks like this. You can see here I've got two pieces of tubing coming together, and I've got a nice profile here that easily makes those two things blend together with no gaps so it's gonna be really easy to weld at whatever angle we specify. Or whatever sized tube or pipe that we are using. To do that, I'm gonna jump over here to this sketch I have, and it's basically just two lines intersecting. So let's go ahead and take a look at that sketch, just start her off so I have a 12 inch piece of tubing that's gonna be down here, an eight inch piece that's gonna be intersecting it at 60 degrees and I've just got it four inches from the edge. Doesn't really matter here, we're just creating some type of angle here, to create the shape. We can always go back to this angle again and change it to create any types of different patterns for any different angle that we need,…

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