Temperatures created by a moving tilted line and a moving tilted cylinder are considered. Analytical expressions for low Peclet $(Pe⪡1)$ and high Peclet $(Pe⪢1)$ numbers are obtained for the whole range of possible tilt angles. These expressions almost overlap: It is shown that these analytical expressions describe very well the results of numerical calculations at any Peclet numbers except for a very narrow range of Pe close to unity. A method of calculation of the cut shape (variation of the tilt angle inside the cut) is discussed.

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