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[Ayeon Hwang]

I'd like to bend another cylindrical solid model to a curved shape in spaceclaim, is there any way?

Please reply to any of these.

[peteroznewman]

I don't know of a way to deform a stent in SpaceClaim to so that a straight centerline deforms to the green curve.

I do know that after the stent is meshed and there are nodes that have coordinates, it is possible to deform the nodal coordinates to the green curve.

[Ayeon Hwang]

Thank you for your answer

Could you explain the way you know?

[peteroznewman]

This a simple example, which is to take a straight stent and “bend” it into a circular arc in the XZ plane.  The X axis is horizontal along the axis of the stent, and Z is vertical. Note that X=0, Z=0 at the center of the stent.

In the ds.dat file are all the XYZ coordinates for every node in the mesh. Bring them into a spreadsheet.

I used an equation of a circle of a given radius, tangent to the origin.  Given an X coordinate, the equation computes the Z coordinate of the circle. This is called the Sag equation in Optics. I simply used that equation to add an offset to every nodal Z coordinate using that node’s X coordinate.  Copy/Paste the new XYZ coodinates back into the ds.dat file and you have a curved stent.

Note that this lateral shift is not a true “bending” of the stent, it is actually a shearing of the shape, but for small values of the Z offset, it is close enough and is really simple.  A more precise transformation would have computed the rotation of the cross-section, but that would be more complicated.

For your case of a general 3D spline, you could extend my simple lateral shearing, but in two directions: Y and Z for each axial coordinate X.

[camilla.gironi4]

Hi Ayeon, 

I'm dealing with a similar problem. Did you succeded in giving the curved shape to the stent (also as peteroznewman suggested)?

Thank you in advance, 

Camilla

[Ayeon Hwang]

Sorry, I didn't tag you.

 

I didn't succeed in this problem.
Now I'm trying with FEA.
And as a related problem, I will find a solution using the active content model (ACM) algorithm.

If you have any related opinions, I would appreciate it if you could tell me.

Thank you.

[Ayeon Hwang]

I didn't succeed in this problem.
Now I'm trying with FEA.
And as a related problem, I will find a solution using the active content model (ACM) algorithm.

If you have any related opinions, I would appreciate it if you could tell me.

Thank you.