Toolbar Modify Assembly, add command Bend Part

[giovanni_cauzzi]

Add the command "Bend Part" to the toolbar "Modify Assembly".

It's so useful bend the part directly in the assembly as the installers do on site

[DRoam]

Hi @giovanni_cauzzi, there's a request for something very similar that you may want to vote on: Flexible Part.

It's a different way of looking at it, but basically the same thing. You set up a Part in such a way that it can be bent/deformed, and then in an Assembly you can make it bend/deform to fit whatever context it's in, just like installers would do on-site.

[giovanni_cauzzi]

@DRoam  @marco.treccani

I know it's possible set up the part file in the same way, but the result it's very different.

In Vault, I'd like to link a single file to a part (SAP item).

Otherwise, it's necessary produce a lot of file, one every type of bending

Keeping just one file and set directly in the assembly is more usefull

[DRoam]

@giovanni_cauzzi yes, what you described is exactly what the other idea is proposing. The idea behind "flexible parts" is you have a single part file that can be deformed to an infinite number of states inside of an assembly (or assemblies). It's exactly the same as what you're proposing, except, rather than using "Bend" at the assembly level, you would create the Bend feature at the part level, and then constraints in the assembly would cause that one instance of the part to "adapt" (bend) to the appropriate angle.