Hi,
V5
I have a pipe that gets flattened at its end and mounted to a 3mm thick wall structure with three bolts.
Pipe ext dia 12mm I guess at the aluminium pipe wall as being 1mm (unknown and no means of finding out.)
Just wondering how do I flatten the end of the pipe over a distance of 15mm, thickness and breadth of squish being what reality would be. So if 1mm gauge aluminium then 2mm thick and breadth would be just less than half the circumference .
Is there a flatten command which would see the pipe develop out to its normal diameter beyond the squish ?
Do I have to use pipe command to create a hollow pipe for this to work ?
Hi, Imagine this,
take a hollow pipe 12mm dia 1mm thick walls, mark off the last 15mm with an indelible marker,
lay a piece of wood over that portion up to the marked line and smash wood with hammer flattening pipe underneath.
Do so from both sides to end up with the flattened bit on centreline of pipe,.
my purple box is the sort of shape the resulting end will be, though a bit thicker than a pixel
Don’t forget the flattened part would be rather wider than the pipe, so the length of the cross-section is about constant. CageEdit: Pipe flatten_PG.3dm (227.7 KB)
If the flattened section is bolted to a wall, wouldn’t it have to be offset to the wall-facing side of the round tube in order to lie flat? Or are there spacers between wall and flattened tube?