Readjusting an already split up pipe

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Hello everybody,

I have put together a script from various resources on this forum. Basically it splits selected pipes up by a certain distance and creates many different smaller pipes while deleting the original pipe. And it works perfectly! (Thanks to the many people who have done this previously)

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My question is this… If the user decided to split the pipe up at 3m intervals for example, and 2 days later realized that they were supposed to be 4m intervals… Obviously its too late to just go back and rerun the script.
Is there a way to select those already split up pipes and resize them according to a new value? What would be the best way to go about this?
What I have tried is feeding the pipe selection into a location node and trying to extend the curve length, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do that. Also, I would have to again delete the pipes that are there and regenerate them at longer or shorter lengths.
The main problem I am having is that the original 1 length of pipe has obviously been deleted right at the start, so I have no pipe to feed off of for splitting. Would it be best to delete all these pipes and find a way to rebuild them, or use the existing ones and modify their length (Which is a read only parameter).
Just a little stuck with this one…

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Maybe get the start point of the first section and the end point of the last section, whilst checking if the are in a straight line?

  • Obviously doesn’t work when the are not straight.
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Hi Marcel,

Thanks for the suggestion, I will give that a go. After finding those two points, just create a line between them and turn that into a pipe?

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Yes, that was the thought.