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New Public Property: True Outside Diameter

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jhoward:
I would really like to be able to know the true outside diameter of an piece of pipe without having to do a distance command on the object.

It would go along way to calm my doubts about what I want.... and what the service is using. Plus it would be really awesome for Visual Lisp routines. There are plenty of great uses for finding BOP at a given point that currently requires a ton of checks... that may still be off if I didn't interpret the material type properly. It leaves to many questions that will be geared towards a single system, service, or material type. So to date, I have been avoiding things of that nature like the plague.

An alternate points property that is a list of all possible "snap points" would work too. I could parse those and derive what I'm looking for.

Tstright:
Not to be a smartass or anything. But most coordinators that I work with know the OD's of the material they are working with.

gambitjr:
jhoward,

see if this is what your looking for:

http://www.ebaa.com/PDF/Misc.Pipe-OD-Chart.pdf

hope it helps!

jhoward:
thanks for the chart... its a nice reference to have around, but I think the point was missed.

I like small/generic/reusable code..... Programing for BOP at a specific end based on material is exactly what I want to avoid. If a public property contained the True OD you wouldn't have to do any of that crap to apply it to any service/spec. Plus I wasn't charged with managing the database (nor would I want to), so the person who does could possibly break something I wrote.

Tstright:

--- Quote from: jhoward ---Programing for BOP at a specific end based on material is exactly what I want to avoid. If a public property contained the True OD you wouldn't have to do any of that crap to apply it to any service/spec. Plus I wasn't charged with managing the database (nor would I want to), so the person who does could possibly break something I wrote.
--- End quote ---

Not the way the program works.....

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