Hi Guy,
I have one curve steel beam with profile is pipe same as below
How I can unfold it, I see unfold pipe feature but it maybe use for straight beam
Thanks
Unfolding is not yet possible for all curved elements. It is an easy way to convert the pipe into a MicroStation solid and use the Microstation unfolding in the Solid modify tools.
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Unfortunately the unfold command in MicroStation is for Meshes not solids. Im not familiar enought with the unfold beam in ProSteel but in the the Unfold Mesh tools unfolds the mesh to a flat pattern.
Right, you have to convert to solid and then extract the surface for creating the mesh to unfold. I am having the steps in detail soon. one should be able to do a script for this too.
I hope in next version will improve unfold for curve beam