SOLIDWORKS CAD Instant 3D - Bending a Bar or Weldment

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Learn how to make a bendable bar or weldment to use with Instant 3D in SOLIDWORKS. Quick Tip presented by Guy Delozier of GoEngineer.
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[@quantaengineeringllc]

Guy, I appreciate the video. This is more about modeling a sketch using a flexible wireframe via a spline, rather than bending a weldment.
A practical application that needs to be addressed is the straightening of a roll formed structural shape in a weldment, which unfortunately is not what this shows.
Case in point, I have some angles roll formed/bump formed to follow the OD of a concrete silo. Currently I find nothing in SW to generate an unformed version of these components.

[@goengineer]

Solidworks does not currently have the ability to bend weldments and then provide a "flat" length for a present member that will calculate or include any material shrink or stretch. We can do this for sheet metal components but not weldment members at this time.

[@wilfriedpacomemenye739]

​@@goengineerplease I'll like to draw the backbone of a Continuum robot. Please Can you help me? The backbone is just rigid

[@rz6111]

Start from the very beginning please.

[@alexandrecs7730]

Sempre com excelentes tutoriais, parabéns👏

[@goengineer]

Gracias, Alexandre. :)

[@mydreams299]

Thank you

[@valzona72]

Интересная функция. Спасибо большое.

[@goengineer]

Пожалуйста. Спасибо за просмотр.

[@bozejcity]

Thats ok.. but with that kind of bending you are actually increasing the size of a part, and that's not realistic... can you bend and/or twist a part without changing its volume?

[@goengineer]

Hi bozejcity,
To bend a model with a more realistic deformation you would need to use a Simulation FEA to make the bend so it could account for material stretching. The deformed body could then be saved out and used as a model. This is, however, 1000x more time consuming, so it may be better to use a rough approximation of the bend rather than the Simulation.