Bar bending software

[ruksi]

What is the easy software for the bar bending schedule

[Tankman]

Interesting ruksi, bar bending schedule and software.

 

Try to take a peek-a-boo at your local muffler shop, bending pipe all the time.

Perhaps not bar but basically the same.

 

Years (30-40) ago, I formed a lot of bar (round and flat), steel beams, steel plate.

CNC equipment is available today for all kinds of forming requirements.

 

What might you specifically want to form?

 

And, curious, where are you posting from?

[ruksi]

Interesting ruksi, bar bending schedule and software.

 

Try to take a peek-a-boo at your local muffler shop, bending pipe all the time.

Perhaps not bar but basically the same.

 

Years (30-40) ago, I formed a lot of bar (round and flat), steel beams, steel plate.

CNC equipment is available today for all kinds of forming requirements.

 

What might you specifically want to form?

 

And, curious, where are you posting from?

 

Tank man,

I think you get this as a joke but for me this very serious task for office work so please any one know good and easy software please make the thread

 

Remark I hope you have some idea about this ?

[Cad64]

Something like this maybe: http://www.constructivetechgroup.com/steelpac_rcd.html

[ruksi]

Something like this maybe: http://www.constructivetechgroup.com/steelpac_rcd.html

 

yes like this, But do you know how it work & availability of this software

 

Do you know any software develop in autodesk like this or like plugging

[Cad64]

Have you considered maybe switching to Autocad Mechanical? Or maybe Inventor?

 

There are several steel fabrication plug-ins for Autocad, but I have no experience with any of them. Just Google Autocad steel plug-in and check the results.

[bmdavis]

maybe you could try looking up bend-tech its more for tubing but i have the program and i like it a lot for my use(building roll cages and stuff for 4x4s)

[Tankman]

Tank man,

I think you get this as a joke but for me this very serious task for office work so please any one know good and easy software please make the thread

 

Remark I hope you have some idea about this ?

 

 

No ruski, didn't ever think of the post as a joke.

 

My question was, "rod, tubing, flat bar" steel. Sorry but, I don't know of any easy software for your applications.

[NBC]

SuperCAD by Graitec is a good bit of software for creating reinforcement drawings and producing bar bending schedules

[BIGAL]

You could write a program that draws a bar say a pline and attaches a block with the bar details then you can do a bill of quantites etc maybe use fields as these will update if you stretch a bar.

 

How many shapes ? You can draw a pline then add an arc then a line etc

 

Once you have one it should be pretty easy to create others as the code will just be copied and modified.

[ruksi]

NBC , CAD64,

 

How is the availability of this softwares, I mean not original

[NBC]

The availability of SuperCAD is direct from Graitec - if it is not an original licensed copy you are after, I am afraid I am unable to help.

[JCastle]

Solidworks;

 

I don't know your job at hand but in Solidworks you can extrude a profile weldment and bend it anyway you would like. Flatten the profile back out for proper B.O.M. length.

 

Im sure Inventor might have similar functions

[SuperCAD]

SuperCAD by Graitec

 

For the record, I'm not associated with them at all.

 

As to the thread topic, you could get a copy of the Machinists Handbook and look at the tables for bending steel. There is a lot of material in there regarding steel bending such as minimum bend radius and the length of steel required to get a 90 degree bend.

 

Or do what Cad64 suggested and move to another program that can handle steel bending.

[ruksi]

Solidworks;

 

I don't know your job at hand but in Solidworks you can extrude a profile weldment and bend it anyway you would like. Flatten the profile back out for proper B.O.M. length.

 

Im sure Inventor might have similar functions

 

My field us architectural & structural so I have to fellow BS Cord also so Steel Pac RCD like this software it has

[Akech]

NBC where can one get supercad by graitec

[ReMark]

NBC was last active here in September, 2013. This thread dates back even further to 2009.

 

This simple search was all that was required to answer your question.

 

"graitec"+"supercad"

 

http://www.graitec.com/uk/ss_supercad.asp

[TheCADnoob]

What is the easy software for the bar bending schedule

 

the trick is you have to realize there is no bar

 

...sorry couldn't help my self