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Place Chute Places a material handling chute using control points. You can use from three to six control points to define the end openings of the chute. The points for each opening can be the same or on different planes; however, you must have the same number of control points on each opening. In general, chutes converge down so that the lower opening is smaller than the upper opening.

Before using this command, you must:

  1. In the Grids task, create the grids needed to define the geometry of the chute. When placing the grids, make sure that at least three grid intersections are available for the creation of control points on each opening.

  2. Use Create Control Points Command to place control points at the grid intersections for the top and bottom openings. Be sure to place the control points in either a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction, using the same direction for both openings.

When control points create parallel upper and lower edges, a single planar plate system is created on each side of the chute. In the following example, the chute has four plates:

When control points do not create parallel upper and lower edges, two planar pate systems are created on each side of the chute. In the following example, the chute has eight plates:

You only use Create Chute Place Chute for initial creation of the chute. After the chute is created, chute structure is placed as planar plate systems from the Molded Forms task.

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