Pipe run with bent elbows and flanges
In your harnessBlender toolMIT
Sweep a pipe along a polyline of corner points, replacing every corner by a tangent elbow of a given bend radius, with a twist-free section and optional flanges at the ends and joints. Use it for plumbing, industrial plants, sci-fi corridors and cable conduits.
What it takes and gives
- Operator
- baltor.pipe_run_elbows
- Parameters
- points, radius, bend_radius, sides, bend_segments, flanges, flange_ratio
- Result
- One smooth-shaded closed mesh object named Pipe Run.
- Blender
- 4.2 or later
- Axes
- Blender Z up, -Y forward
- Units
- metres
Limits. Solid pipe without an inner bore; the wall thickness is not modelled. Elbows are circular arcs of one bend radius; tees, reducers and valves are not generated. Flanges are plain cylinders that overlap the pipe rather than being merged with it. A path that turns back on itself, or a run shorter than its two elbows need, is refused. Verified in Blender 5.2.1; written for the 4.2 API.
Details
- Kind
- Blender tool
- Engine
- Blender 4.2 or later
- Files
- 11 files, 109.9 KB
- Licence
- MIT
- Declared effects
- runs commands
- Checked with
- Blender 5.2.1, background (Cycles CPU for previews)
- Checks
- addon install and enable, operator runs with defaults, blender data matches core, addon disable unregisters, script mode runs, clean reopen addon file, clean reopen script file, gltf separate export, engine output clean
- Techniques
- Tangent arc fillet: tangent length R tan(theta / 2), centre on the bisector, Rotation-minimising frames by the double reflection method (Wang et al. 2008), Rodrigues rotation for points on the elbow arc
- Tags
- blender, procedural, pipe, elbow, sweep, industrial, mesh generator
- Identity
library.supply.creative_originals.66661b13b8206c27ec600cf1.e62826ec55252803- Version
e62826ec55252803f1965a07fe7eb6f97cecdb40561ef8eb14af6115e3ee8aed
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