Yet another AutoCad Inventor Question...

[69stang]

I don't have a lot of experience with Inventor but something to think about, in solidworks it needs a section of flat geometry, a reference to bend from. In this situation I include a small flat strip in my geometry, as minimal as possible, to work around the issue.

[modular93fox]

I started to try that but I could not figure out that one either. I happened to hit f1 by accident while hovering over the contour roll.... that gave the sheet metal rules to the tube that it created. So what I did was like it said... create one line of design... i made it 5 inches, and the axis, 1.25" away (with dimeinson and constrained it). it said it applied the unfold rules to it, but when i hit Unfold, theres no "stationary reference"... do i need to make something else or add a plain?

edit:After trying something dumb I can get the required reference... instetad of 360"... i can put in 359* and it willl display the reference and it will unfold. So now I will try and make some cuts and see if it transferes over....
clint

another edit: found it transferes, after watching another tutorial on tring to find unfolding tutorials, i found this one thats unrelated but it walks through putting an angle on a work plane. The angle on the work plane will let me draw the intersecting pipe.... This might allow me to do what I want.... Im play around with this some more.. ha... this was supposed to be easy and faster than me eye balling it.. haha