I'm using a tube object. I'm trying to understand and have the correct wall thickness. I'd like it to be 2mm. I have the wall thickness set to .25, but I don't really understand what that means in terms of millimeters.
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Wayne Losey Snaga,
The wall thickness is a measured in the same increments as listed in your grid properties panel on the bottom right of your editor window.
Setting the wall thickness at 2 will give you a 2mm wall thickness. Setting it to .25 make it 1/4 of a mm.
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Cleared Actually, that isn't exactly how it works. If you start with the default tube, occupying a 20x20mm square, and size it using the shape properties dialog, then yes, the wall thickness will be correct. However, if you scale the object's diameter using the bounding box drag points, then the wall thickness won't be meaningful anymore.
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Cleared Thanks A Matulich.
I suppose it is the same with the torre shape?
Frederic
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Cleared Yes, pretty much any shape that has a dialog box, once you resize the shape using the bounding box drag points, the units in the shape properties dialog no longer apply. You can still set these properties, but they will change the shape proportionally by the amount previously resized, not exactly millimeters anymore.
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Gerard Pineau Its an old thread but pertinent to my question. If i increase the thickness it the increase toward the id or to the od? sometimes when I change the thickness it changes the diameter.
Is it true what you said that if you resize the tube the information in the shapes dialog box no longer applies.?
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Cleared Well, the information still applies, but not the units. Whatever you set in the box ends up getting scaled by how you resized things using the drag points.
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