When drawing Civil 3D Pipes in Section Views or when displaying crossing Pipes in Profile Views you may find that the Pipes do not look very smooth. In fact they may look like the example below that appears to be drawn with just a few straight lines.
If you want to display smooth, more rounded, Pipes you can control this with the FACETDEV system variable. FACETDEV defines the maximum distance from the chord to the arc when drawing Pipes in Section Views and Profile Views. So just set this variable to a smaller number and you will have smoother Pipes.
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Rick Ellis, president of CADapult Software Solutions, Inc, has worked with and taught Autodesk Civil 3D, along with Map 3D and other Autodesk products since the mid-90s. He is the Author of several critically acclaimed books on Autodesk Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, Land Desktop and Carlson Software; including the Practical Guide series.
Rick continues to use Autodesk Civil 3D on projects in a production environment, in addition to teaching classes to organizations both large and small around the country, helping them get the most out of their design software investment.
This practical background and approach has made him an award winning speaker at Autodesk University and a sought after instructor by organizations around the world.
