Unfolding Bends and Flanges

You can unfold 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.
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 Unfolding .
  2. Select the fixed part of the body as the Reference face.


  3. Select the cylindrical bend to unfold in the Unfold Faces box.


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

    To remove the selection, click Unselect.

  6. Click Preview to visualize the unfolding.


    Important:
    • To unfold a 3D shape with a bending cycle, each element of the cylindrical bend has to be selected individually.
    • The unfolded faces must be in the same domain.
    • You can unfold non-canonical faces such as a curved flange.