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Deform (New Custom Feature!) 🆕twist | bend | scale | morph | wrap | flex
. CADSharp & RENDERCAD have sponsored a new custom feature: . Deform It deforms a parts and surfaces via profile sections or lattice grids along a path. Useful when you need to bend, twist, and scale parts after they have already been modeled. Note: It is still a work in progress but I think its good enough for first…
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Anyone already wrote a feature script for "slotted bending" (sheet metal)?
Hey, I am currently trying to write a quick feature script to transform a sheet metal bend corner into a "slotted bend" (like described nicely over at Hackaday a while back: https://hackaday.com/2016/05/18/the-art-and-science-of-bending-sheet-metal/ ). This can already be easily done manually by drawing a sketch with a…
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Bending a wire mesh sheet
I have created a configurable (welded square) mesh sheet, configurable by width, depth, wire gauge and wire pitch. My sheet is e.g. 600x600 mm, wire 1.4mm, wire pitch 25 mm. I now want to bend the sheet, not reconstruct, but bend it along a crossing axis. Can this be done in Onshape? I need to create various parts of…
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First project challenge — bending irregular geometry in Onshape
Hi, this is my first full project in Onshape. I’m still very much a beginner, and my goal is to turn a vacuum into my favorite droid — R2-D2 from Star Wars. Right now I’m stuck trying to bend one of R2’s arms and could really use some advice. At first I tried using projected curves, but I found that both the top and front…
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Not sure how to bend surfaces over a curve... can someone point me in the right direction?
Attempting to bend these surfaces over the curved line. I can share the document if needed, but this might be such a simple answer i'm missing. Context: I'm wrapping faces onto STLs of characters from a game i like to make 3d printable figures. All the characters have relative simple shaped heads, and because i didn't want…
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S bend on profiled tube
I am trying to model the S-bent tube from this drawing : I tried to first define the bend path and made some profile along the way to connect with a loft function without success. I thinking it would be easier to first make the straight tube and then apply the bending but I don't know which feature to use. I tried with…
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How to perforate a bend line,
Hi. I need to make a sheet metal part with "perforations" on the bend lines so I can manually bend/ fold it. found a few discussions on it but not really an answer... I cant seem to make this work on the preview of the flat pattern, as it doesn"t seem to accept dteh geometry for an extrude (only if its within flat sections…
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make a cut on a bending line with sheet metal
Hi, The current design is a sort of box, but it is impossible to make according to the sheet bender. A possible solution is to make a cut on the bending line, but how can I design this in OnShape...?! FYI for the manufacturer I can upload a step file and the software notices the fabrication errors, so I don't upload an…
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FS for sheet metal slotted bend lines?
I was looking for some examples of designs for precise sheet metal bend lines and found a patent with a series of interesting slotted bend line designs. According to Google the patent is expired since 17-8-2020 and the designs can be used free. It looks like something that could be an useful FS. I just started using…
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Clean way to show after bend dimension for sheet metal parts?
I have a sheet metal part where I want to give a dimension from the face of the first flange to be bent to the next bend line. Is there an easy wat to show a part with only certain bends having been made? Please see bellow…
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Flex function on a part or assembly,
Hello Everyone, I am looking for a way to flex a part similar to the flex function of Solidworks. For all intents and purposes something that could accomplish this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzj_VEj6nmA I do not have the option to use either sheet bending or even build up the model from scratch in a bend state.…
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Sheet metal: I can't select select edges to bend
I'm trying to create a sheet metal model containing a 90° bend. So I created two sketches on two separate planes. Those two sketches touch each other. I then created a sheet metal model using "thicken" mode and selected the sketch regions from my two sketches. Until this point, everything worked great. However, I can't…