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Re: Animating a Bend

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Originally Posted by Rob2713g View Post
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.
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.