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Re: Bending Tubes in Inventor
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Originally Posted by MGoelz View Post
Our team was trying to figure out how to bend tubes or pipes in Inventor and couldn't find any adequate tutorials or anything, and we didn't see any older threads about it either. If someone could direct us to a good tutorial or can briefly explain how to go about bending a tube, it would be greatly appreciated.

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There are a whole bunch of tutorials on here, I'm not sure exactly what your thinking of, but to me it sounds like you can accomplish what you need by using the sweep feature.

http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/
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