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Easy way to Fold out a pipe

joakim.jfab
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Easy way to Fold out a pipe

joakim.jfab
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Lets say im making a tube chassis or just a frame with either round tube, or square tubing.

I know im not the only one who is missing an easy way to fold out this pipe to to then save as DXF and then cut this out on a CNC Plasma or laser tube notcher. I know i can do this by making a cut all the way length wise on the tube, and then convert to sheet metal, then make flat pattern, but there should be a function to just select a tube og square tubing inside sheetmetal workspace and just make flat pattern of the selected tube.

 

 

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jake2QSUB
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Agreed! But why stop there? It would be nice to be able to export the bent components to have the tubes CNC bent as well. 

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joakim.jfab
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Yes @jake2QSUB  :slightly_smiling_face: And maybe a fuction to straighten out bent pipe :slightly_smiling_face: Or if we could just get a Roatary plasma tool, that would help ALOT!

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