Straighten a hose

[Anonymous]

I use routed systems on a daily basis, 80% of the time I use bent tube routes, these are then CNC bent using the YBC data that is easily exported. Hose routes are a different story. it would be great to have a straighten option in the view placement dialogue box, true hose length and the offset of any elbow fittings or porting can be properly documented.

[barry.ashcroft]

I have same problem when showing cable or a rubber object with 2 states (bent over and straight)

[mcgyvr]

I would LOVE this functionality for Cable/Harnesses too.. 

I've been duplicating a lot of my cables to recreate them in a "straight" state for the drawings and even for use in view reps in the assembly.

[stuartmp]

I don't use tube or Pipe, but this is a great Idea, how can you create a meaningful drawing for tube or hose without a feature like you suggest.

Awesome.

[lesmfunk]

I would say this is just for visual purposes since Inventor already calculates hose length. BUT, fitting orientation is the issue here. We put our orientation (degrees rotation) in a table and the vendor still gets it wrong!! So now we try to avoid having two bent fitting ends on the same hose.

In your example with the relief port, the orientation is not that critical. Show a hose with two bent ends. Then you have an problem. Great idea!!

Next idea: Fluid Schematics...

[paul]

I think we should be able to flatten a swept profile after selecting the normal to face. Hope autodesk soon hears this.

[Anonymous]

I agree with jasonm, I work in the similar field and use just as much.

It would be great if there were a "straightening option", after creating a bent tube/pipe using sweep, which will calculate and straighten it to what should be your cut length...auto calculate depending on the input we supply (material, tube/pipe diameter, wall thickness, bend radius and angle which then calculates and takes material stretching into account).

[danmachen]

Would love to see this feature!!! 

It would be so useful in cable and harness and also hose routing. 

To have the 3D representation in a drawing doesn't offer much to the manufacturer.

It means you have to create vastly complicated modelling environment to compute the straight hose and also to work out the angle at which two hose connections should be to one another to take into consideration the 'twisting' of the hose in its installation.

[DRoam]

Related idea: implement unfolding of a swept profile

[PACDrafting]

This would be an extremely useful function. We have a number of crane companies that would really benefit from this. Currently most of them are quite annoyed this has not been implemented yet.

[pcoleman]

 125 Votes and counting

[Anonymous]

Yes this function would be very welcome. It is a must.

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@Anonymous wrote:

I use routed systems on a daily basis, 80% of the time I use bent tube routes, these are then CNC bent using the YBC data that is easily exported. Hose routes are a different story. it would be great to have a straighten option in the view placement dialogue box, true hose length and the offset of any elbow fittings or porting can be properly documented.

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@Anonymous wrote:

I use routed systems on a daily basis, 80% of the time I use bent tube routes, these are then CNC bent using the YBC data that is easily exported. Hose routes are a different story. it would be great to have a straighten option in the view placement dialogue box, true hose length and the offset of any elbow fittings or porting can be properly documented.

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[petri.k]

This should be added to Inventor and fast. I would love to have this function and this feature is lacking. Creo has it, Solidworks has it...