Ian Johnson
04-01-2016, 1:37 AM
I would like to make the base of this by bending acrylic over a jig.
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How would you go about straightening it in CAD to create a drawing for the piece that will be bent? It is made by sweeping along a spline. It's not a perfect circle or ellipse, so it's not a simple calculation of circumference. I'm using Onshape, but I also have Alibre and would be willing to learn Fusion or Creo if they happen to have features that would help. If illustrator can do something like that it would be a possibility, maybe by tracing or importing a dxf. It is just a long rectangle of known width with rounded ends and a hole at each end. I just need to know the length from end to end. It's easy enough in real life with a sewing tape measure, but I don't know the CAD equivalent.
334963
How would you go about straightening it in CAD to create a drawing for the piece that will be bent? It is made by sweeping along a spline. It's not a perfect circle or ellipse, so it's not a simple calculation of circumference. I'm using Onshape, but I also have Alibre and would be willing to learn Fusion or Creo if they happen to have features that would help. If illustrator can do something like that it would be a possibility, maybe by tracing or importing a dxf. It is just a long rectangle of known width with rounded ends and a hole at each end. I just need to know the length from end to end. It's easy enough in real life with a sewing tape measure, but I don't know the CAD equivalent.