Hi. I am trying to create an object that looks like a bent tube (ie taking a
metal tube and bending it in half to form an arc). I haven't quite figured out
the easiest way of doing this, but I have a hard time believing it would be
that hard. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks,
Bill Raymond
Intec Controls
Assuming you're using 3.0, create a tube with many vertical sections. Add a
deform tool with three segments and rotate the top set of points 90 degrees.
Apply the deform tool to your tube and you will have a bent tube. –Rick
Rodriguez
Here's a way to do it :
1) Draw a torus (from the primitves requester), and specify the tube diameter
and torus radius you want.
2) Draw a plane (also from the primitives requester),rotate it 90 degrees in
the x axis, move it so that it will cut the torus in half, scale it if needed.
3) Use the SLICE command to cut the torus and plane into parts.
4) Pick all the parts that you don't want.
Hope this helps.