trying to model a bent pipe. I have a pipe created by extrude thin. I then have cuts in the bottom of the pipe to add relief for bending. Now I want to bend the pipe in a constant arc. I tried using the deform feature but the ends of the pipe do not remain perpendicular to the arc of the pipe. Anyone have an idea how to do this?
The cut sections also do not remain perpendicular to the arc, same problem as the ends. For example, when the pipe is cut perp to axis on bottom then bent along the top, the cut becomes a wedge shape, its not doing this, the top surface of the cut takes the shape of the new arc but the vertical sufaces remain vertical.
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Ben 1:41 pm on June 3, 2009 Permalink
Can you zip up a model and attach it to a comment? The reason is when you say the ‘bottom’ does that mean the end or if the pipe was lying down on its side the side that is touching the ground….?
Jason Corl 2:41 pm on June 3, 2009 Permalink
Here it is…SW crashed on me the first time I tried hitting “browse”
Attachment - pipe-arc
Ben 2:57 pm on June 3, 2009 Permalink
You need to go to the bottom of the dialog for bending. at the bottom there is ’shape options’ choose ‘maintain boundary’ and ‘curve direction’
I will look into the crash for you in a bit…
Ben 3:10 pm on June 3, 2009 Permalink
Turns out you only need to check ‘Curve direction’ when you edit this feature
Jason Corl 3:20 pm on June 3, 2009 Permalink
Doh! don’t know how I missed that! I did try the maintain boundary and it didn’t seem to do much but I didn’t play with the “match” section. Thanks!