Can you bend a rectangular tube?

[tomHKD9J]

I am designing a chassis frame rail and it needs to have a bend in it. I tried the pipe command and it doesn't offer a rectangular option, just round and square. I have built a model of the tubing (2x4 steel) but wondering if it can be bent in the drawing to be able to have mandrel bent for production.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

maybe Sweep helps?

1. create a path (3-D-sketch)

2. create a plane on path

3. sketch the tube profile

4. sweep the profile along the  path

günther

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

If you have to bend the actual rectangular tube take a look at this Blog article and video.  Model is attached.

[tomHKD9J]

 

Thank you for the speedy response. That did it!

[tomHKD9J]

I will give this a try as well, I think this will be preferred for the project I am designing if I can get it to work out.