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Show and bent rod as a flat part.

Show and bent rod as a flat part.

Show and bent rod as a flat part.

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Basically I have and guide rod the needs to be bent and rolled in a couple places. Does any one now how to show the flat profile?

RE: Show and bent rod as a flat part.

First question ... do you really need to show the unbent part?
What purpose would it serve?

In sheet metal, start with a square bar where the width equals the material thickness, apply the bends, and then add fillets to each edge to create the round. The flat pattern config would have the fillets suppressed.

 

cheers

RE: Show and bent rod as a flat part.

I do not use the sheet metal tool for this, I use a cheat instead.  I make a second config and I change the degrees to 179.9 which looks flat but really isn't.  Sometimes you have to use less of an angle such as 179.8.  Note the tangent lines are off so the breaks don't show on the flat pattern.

By the way, this is a 3D line and a 2D line is easier if your part allows it.


See PDF: http://www.paul-flores.com/temp_files/3D_wire_sample.pdf

And here are the 2008 files to see the cheat: http://www.paul-flores.com/temp_files/3D_wire_sample.zip


 

Flores

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