Bending tubing, fishmouthing, placement

[BlindChickenRacing]

I am trying to create an assembly that has bent tubing components. I am not having much luck creating the tubing with bends, fishmouthing, holes, etc. Anyone know of a tutorial that covers this? Any other way of doing this?

Thanks,

Mark


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Mark Johnson

http://www.blindchickenracing.com

 

[TheTick]

There is a piping module available. Contact your VAR.

Otherwise, I typically module tubing as a sweep aplong a centerline. Fishmouthing can be accomplished by creating a sweep of the wall sextion and using the tubing diameter edge as a guide curve.

To put a hole in a cylinder (tubing) wall, one first usually puts a datum plane tangent to the cylinder. Then, sketch the hole, and make an extrude/cut. If you use the Hole Wizard, Hole wizard holes can also be placed on the plane or on the cylinder wall itself.

I looked at your website. Neat stuff. Explains you handle. Feel free to contact me at the email address in my profile.

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