About Manage Bent Pipes with Mid Over Length

Additional type for Mid side on over length feature allows you to have multiple extra lengths on a pipe with an auxiliary viewer. Thus, the bending operation cuts the pipe off right with this new information.

Mid Over Length expander in the Feature Manager - This displays a list of mid over length features. Click Edit on Over Lengths expand of the Feature Manager. The help message appears at the bottom of the panel for 5 seconds. The list view allows you to modify and delete a mid over length feature through spinners in the list view.



Selection in the list view of Mid Over Length expander - A single row is selectable in the list view only in Edit mode. When selecting a row, the handle appears on the existing mid over length feature.

Modification in the list view - Spinners are visible in Edit mode.

Note: The valid value for length of mid over length is between 0mm to triple of the corresponding line.
When the value is equal to 0mm or less than that, the message dialog box appears and asking to delete the selected mid over length. The check box in the message dialog box does not ask this question if selecting again, and clicking OK. Clicking OK, the selected mid over length removes from the list.

When clicking RMB on a row in the list view, Delete displays. Once selected mid over length removes from the list and a message appears at the bottom of the panel.

Selection mode in Feature Manager command - When the Feature Manager command is running, only items in the spec tree or main 3D viewer are selectable. No other types are selectable anymore. Once the panel of Feature Manager closes, the selection mode is back to normal (normal selection mode).

Selection mode in Edit mode of Over Lengths expander - Clicking Edit on Over Lengths expander, only the straight cutting feature can be selectable in the auxiliary viewer. After selecting the straight line, the handle appears on the selected point.

Manipulator in auxiliary viewer - When selecting a straight line of cutting feature in the auxiliary viewer, the handle appears on the selected point. It allows you to create a new or modify the existing mid over length feature.

Note: The range of this handle is from 0mm to triple of the selected line.
However, when the length of the selected line is equal or less than 1,000mm (100cm or 1m), the maximum length of the selected line is now 3,000mm. The arrow of the handle starts from the start point of the pipe.

After dragging the handle, the text displays to ask you to confirm the new change. When clicking OK to confirm the new change, the mid over length feature creates. However, when clicking Cancel, 265mm restores to 200mm.

After creating a mid over length, a message appears at the bottom of the panel. A new mid over length is created successfully.

When selecting a straight line of cutting feature and there is a mid over length for the selected line, the handle appears with the current length of the mid over length. When updating the length of the mid over length from 200mm to 265mm, the following message, Selected mid over length is updated successfully at the bottom of the panel.