"Thom Rock" wrote
> Below is a view of a grill screen that will be bent into this restrained
> shape when it is welded into its weld assembly. However, to do the
initial
> bending of the material it will just be bent straight (without the final
> curvature). If I dimension it in the restrained condition, all of the
> angles and distances between centers are a little different than they
would
> be in the unbent condition.
> My question then is this. Do I really have to build another model of the
> screen in its folded but unrestrained state in order to document it
properly
> in a drawing? Or is there a way that I am not aware of to do this in the
> same model so I do not need to maintain two different files for the same
> part?
I don't thik so.
You would have to dimension the lenght of the arc and the lines, and then
dont dimension the radius and the angle betwen the lines.
But i Dont think that you can dimension the lenght of the arc in a sketch.
Brian