MEP wall thickness

[Matthew Johnson]

Can anyone explain what the "wall thickness" variable in the MEP pipe and duct tools is for? No matter what value I give it the pipe is just a single tube with no wall thickness.

We are trying to model some civil stormwater lines that run under our buildings using the MEP tools. The pipe walls in some instances are up to 300mm thick (2500mm dia pipe and bigger).

[David Maudlin]

Matthew:

Looking at the Pipe Straight 15 object, in the Master Script there is a call for the MEP_m_Pipe_4 macro, but the ConWallThickness_1 variable (for the Wall Thickness parameter) does not show up there, so I am guessing that this parameter is for listing only, with no effect on the 3D model. (I think the pipe is formed by a RULED command, so no thickness is created, the insulation is the same.) The only option I see is to add the insulation to fake the thickness of the pipe.

David