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Re: Any Toroidal Bend experts out there?

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Ha!... yea, that's why I like Toroidal Bend   It is a simple flat model that I want to use as a starting pattern.

 

I made the mating part, slightly squished version using the Warp command (Warp is a -very- weak command as you have very little control).  This one uses the curve-circles you see inscribed.  I then offset the outside surface and flattened the quilt (another really messy command!).  That flattened quilt is the pattern for the mating part.

 

I also had to report a bug with toroidal Bend today.   It will be submitted as an SPR.  I tried to remove the curves from the toroidal bend but one circle remained.  It wasn't listed but when I tried to delete the associated sketch, it wanted to delete the toroidal bend.  Something got corrupted and PTC will have to take a look.

 

This is what I was after...

art_halfloop.JPG

 

For the flatten quilt, I had to leave a cylinder in the center so the origin "point" would be close enough to the model... and then it tells me the x-direction was -too- close to the model.  That command is like pulling teeth.

 

flatten_quilt.JPG

I am satisfied that with a roll-press, the two parts could be formed to within acceptable limits of the model based on the two flat patterns I now have available.

 

This was the challenge I was hoping the Toroidal Bend command could solve in a single step... the slight flattening of the "forward" face but still maintain a relatively coincident surface at the pivots (ends).

 

squish.JPG

With the warp tool I was able to "freeze" the ends while moving the face in +Y and moving each half one material thickness in +/-X (fix the bounding box at 50% and 100% on each side).  What is lacking in the warp command is specificity.  It is a "general" move.  You can control the bounding box well enough but the move deltas have no available references -except- the limits of the bounding box.  This makes the geometry modifications "relative" and much less precise than I would normally want.

 

In this case, it is "good enough" (GAWD I DISLIKE THAT PHRASE!). 


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