SPINAL BEND

Who can suggest me a good example to define a spinal bend feature (with
or without SEC PROP CONTROL ) ??
Thanks in advance

Pier

 

The one in the book shows a flat box wrench turned into an offset box wrench
with a spinal bend. And what controlled the curve was a sketch, as I recall
with dimensioned lengths and offset. I never really got the point of why you
wouldn't just use the sketch as the original trajectory of the sweep.

 

I agree. I've noticed too with the Spinal Bend functionality that you have
to be aware of some of the weird distortions that you can end up with in
regards to the resulting solid not really following the curve reference
geometry as desired. In certain cases when we've used the Spinal Bend
functionality to show a part with a living hinge feature, the lid/flap
geometry didn't quite line up correctly. I think that some users try to bend
non-sheetmetal parts using the Spinal Bend
functionality--and they end up very disappointed with the results. They try
to
use a Spinal Bend in a similar fashion as a Pro|SHEETMETAL bend feature
and the two functions behave dramatically different.

Ron M.