Folding Bends and Flanges

You can fold bends. It also applies to cylindrical faces such as flange, bend and surfaces recognized as bend.

Before you begin:
  • Create a representation with two walls, a cylindrical bend and a wall on edge.
  • Unfold the bend using the Unfolding command. See Folding Bends and Flanges.
See Also
About the Creation of Folded and Unfolded Bends
Creating Bends from Walls
Creating Conical Bends
Creating Bends from a Line
  1. From the Model section of the action bar, click Folding .
  2. In the Reference face, select a wall.


  3. In the Fold Faces box, select the cylindrical bend to fold.


  4. From the list, select the Angle Type.
  5. Optional: To fold all the bending surfaces, click Select All.

    To remove the selection, click Unselect.

  6. Click Preview to visualize the folding.


    Important:
    • To fold a 3D shape with a bending cycle, each element of the cylindrical bend has to be selected individually.
    • You cannot create folded faces with null radius.