Animating a Bend
 

I have been unsuccessful in animating an object to bend, such as a piece of paper. I am trying to get it into a semi-circular shape as opposed to folding. Is this possible in Inventor? Or do I need to use 3DSMax?

Re: Animating a Bend
 

From my understanding, you have to do it on 3dsmax. However, I would bet that if there was such a possibility with inventor, it would be in the sheet metal section. You might try there if you really do not want to use 3dsmax.

Re: Animating a Bend
 

You should be able to do this with the Bend operation in Inventor. You can vary the bend radius and angle parameters to get the shape you want.

Re: Animating a Bend
 

There is a file named something like scissors.iam in the Samples folder with a bending flat spring around an arc.
Check help on Adaptive Sketches and Inventor Studio.

You can animate the bend by Drive Constraint on an angle constraint (I think, I don't have it up to check exactly) - holler back if you can't figure it out.

Re: Animating a Bend
 

Thanks! The scissor animation really helped. I just downloaded 3DSMax, so that should also make it easier.