Well, it appears to be dependant of the original. Some arc result into one curved pipe, others result in several shorter ones. I am not sure what the difference in the original cad drawing is. If I come across another one that doesn’t work, I’ll send it in through tech support.
Heh... lesson learned: check before answering. (That was for myself, of course.) Yes, the option is there (hence my surprise earlier). I actually just checked through our support logs and in the past 3-4 years since we added Curved Pipes, no one has ever reported that they were unable to Convert a Circular or Elliptical Arc into a Pipe, so yes, if you can provide an example file for this, we'll be glad to fix whatever may be wrong. Thanks! Dany P.S. Note that Circles nor Ellipses cannot be Converted into Pipes -- because WYISYWYG Pipes require a start point and an end point, and these objects have neither. (This cannot and will not change.) To work around this, you may Break a Circle or an Ellipse into Arcs, and then Convert those Arcs into Pipes; furthermore, to make using the resulting Curved Pipes easier, you may Group them and assign the same Position Names to them -- for obvious reasons; note that the Unit numbers assigned by AutoUnit will likely be inadequate, which is normal, but you can use QuickTools to correct them.
For a “circular” pipe I usually make an arc with the correct radius and set it to 359 degrees. Once converted to a pipe you can array fixtures around it etc as you would expect. Just need to line up the 1degree missing segment somewhere it won’t affect you too much.
