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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?
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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.
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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.
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Re: Animating a Bend

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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.
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Re: Animating a Bend

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