Special Feeder

The Feeder designer is accessed using the 'New' command. It is a special powerful design feature for designing an arrangement of a vertical cone/pipe, with one or more conical/pipe outlets at the base, or at some position up along its center line, and at a horizontal angle around the pipe, and at an incline angle to the horizontal. The pipes connected to the Feeder are mutually intersected giving patterns for the multiple intersection of these parts.

Note: The Feeder designer opens with just the main vertical con/pipe selected. To alter the parameters for each individual outlet pipe/cone first select it in the view to highlight it, then the parameters will be included in in the parameter editor on the left.

This is the main pipe running vertically to which all the outlet pipes/cones are connected.

Pipes: integer - Defines the number of outlet pipes/cones at the base of the feeder. Changing this value will automatically add pipes with default values defined by the first pipe, or if there are already more than the number specified it will remove the last ones. Each outlet pipe has individual dimensions defining its size, location and orientation.

There can be any number of outlet pipes connected to the base of the main pipe. These are all mutually intersected with the main pipe and the other outlet pipes. Each pipe has the following parameters that become visible in the dimension editor by selecting the outlet pipe in the view.

Distance: Value - Defines the distance from the base of the main pipe/cone up to the connecting node of the outlet pipe.

Rotation: Angle - Defines the rotation of the outlet pipe, in the horizontal plane, from the zero angle position (aligned with the vertical pipe seam).

Down Rotation: Angle - Defines the downward incline of the pipe from the horizontal.

Diameter: Value - Defines the open end diameter of the outlet pipe. The connecting node end diameter is defined automatically to seal off the end of the vertical pipe.

Length : Value - Defines the length of the outlet pipe from the connection node to the open end.