CNC Bender v11-20081230

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Check.jpg NEW - HITCH FEED Push Bending

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CNC Bender can now hitch feed during push bend to create a helical tube shape with many loops from a material that is much longer than the bender.



Check.jpg NEW - Push Bend Twist GEARING

CNC Bender now gears the rotational twist motion to the feed motion in order to create more accurate helical shapes. As the Feed axis moves forward, the Rotation axis rotates at a pre-programmed gear ratio in the Push Bending Profile page.



The Twist Velocity column is replaced with the Twist Gearing column. The gear ratio is a value can start at 0.002 units and increase. Cncbender pbtwist profile.jpg
The ratio is used as "degrees of twist" in the following formula:

Rotation Degrees of Twist  / Feed Axis 1 Millimeter

So a twist gear of 1 would cause the rotate to twist 1 degree per the feed axis 1 millimeter of motion.

Check.jpg NEW - Automatic Bend Combine During XYZ to FRB Conversion

CNC Bender now allows you to automatically combine adjacent bends into a single bend if the adjacent bends meet a preprogrammed criteria controlled by the Low Level dynamic options.

This feature is important because centerline XYZ data always represents bends that approach and exceed 180 degrees as two separate adjacent bends.


This part was drawn in SolidWorks and extracted by Benderlink for SolidWorks into XYZ data.

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The data was imported into the XYZ data page of CNC Bender.

Cncbender xyzpage 180pipe.jpg

When XYZ to FRB conversion is made without the Combine Bends feature enabled, the result is five bends as shown in this FRB page.

Bends 1 and 2 match, and bends 3 and 4 match. This is because each set of bends could be combined to represent a single bend.

Cncbender frbpage 180pipe nocombine.jpg

Enter the Low Level menu. The Combine Bends feature is enabled in the dynamic options.

The distance and twist thresholds are set so that the internal formula understands when two bends can be joined into one bend.

Cncbender combinevariables.jpg

When XYZ to FRB conversion is made again, there are now only 3 bends in the FRB data. The first two bends are combined into high-angle bends that are proper for CNC benders.

Cncbender frbpage 180pipe combine.jpg

This is the resulting image in CNC Bender Bender Data menu:

Cncbender 180pipe.jpg

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