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Revision as of 11:39, 28 December 2016
Things To Know
- This tutorial will step you through the process of creating a bent part design in Bend-Tech Dragon and show you the possible choices for where to take it next depending on your needs. As you walk through this tutorial, procedures are designed based on your knowledge of earlier procedures. Because of this, it is very important that you carefully step through this guide, understanding everything along the way.
Tutorial
1. From the Bend-Tech Dragon start up screen, click on the Bent Part button to open the bent part interface.
3. In order to start a design, select a material from the material drop down menu and a die from the die drop down menu to the left. I'll be using the default 1.75 DOM material and a 5.0 radius die but it doesn't matter what you choose for this tutorial.
4. Next, select 4 from the Number of Bends drop down menu to the far left.
5. Now, enter the values in the LRA value fields to the left of the display screen according to the picture shown below.
6. Make sure to also enter 90 into the Start Angle value field. This will cause the design in the display screen to rotate 90 degrees and stand straight up.
7. Next, select the Cutting tab from the upper left hand corner, click the Add button twice and check the Display Cross Tubes checkbox.
8. Then, for the start cut, enter 90 into the Rotation value field and 110 into the Angle value field.9. Next, for the end cut, enter 270 into the Rotation value field and 70 into the Angle value field.
10. Now click the Add button by default this will add an extra cut to the start of the tube. In the Offset amount type .5
11. With the part finished, please save the file by clicking the Save icon from the icon menu bar at the top of the screen and name it Dragon Test1. This will be used in later tutorials including the Dragon Nesting Tutorial and Dragon Custom Design Tutorial.
Transferring
- After applying all of the changes to our bent part, we are free to select the desired option for transferring the part out.
- You may Transfer to Design for adding further geometry to the part and assigning actions before sending it to the machine, or you may Transfer to Nesting if you'd like the current part to be added to a nesting project without altering the part further.
- See the Dragon Guide to help you decide where to go from here.