Bending surfaces

[SpazMachine]

Does anyone know a way to make Mastercam bend surfaces? I have a model that is 30 inches long and is basically a cylinder with some fancy stuff on it. I need to bend it in a U shape. Someone suggested I try Rhino. It has a flow command that almost works. It looks good until you really look closely at the results. It may be a tolerance issue, I don't know. I need a good accurate way to pull this off. Any ideas?

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

tolerance could be the problem. you might try isolating each flat and the actual wrap.

The flow command tries to break each contour into a certain # of segments then remap them to the new curve.

 

If you isolate the stuff you may be able to use mastercam's roll (under xform) for the cylindrical part of the geo.