The real old-fashioned way, Karl, is to clamp the pipes in a T and
use a long piece of soapstone to scribe one off the other, then
cut it, clean up the cut, reclamp, and scribe the other off the
first, then make that cut, clean up, fit and weld. I've seen
shipyard pipefitters do that hundreds of times.

Grant

Karl Townsend wrote:

"Ben" wrote in message
news:Z8wpb.115238$EO3.30463@clgrps13...

Look up tube mitering on google or go to these links and see the tube
mitering download links
ftp://ftp.ihpva.org/pub/software/index.html
http://www.ihpva.org/people/tstrike/...ng/tubemit.htm



I've just ****ed away 1 1/2 hours trying to get something to work here. The
first link needs a postscript printer - ain't got it.

The second link, tubemiter.exe prints out the paper copy of the tube miter
fit to an 8 1/2 x 11 paper, not to scale.

Another link on down the page, winmiter.exe has the same problem. Maybe
there's something I don't know about printer setup here????

The link talking about an excel spreadsheet feeding AutoCAD would be just
GREAT, but the link don't point to it. Points to some page about building
bicycles.


Anybody know of something else, or the old fashioned way with paper and a
drafting machine?

Karl