Hi All,
I have also been playing with tangents to get the CNC Pipe bender working I have found that is some instances where freestyle organic curve needs to be converted I do a manual divide of the curve in roughly equal segments which I then manually drag constant tangents which gives me a pretty good result but I have found in some instances that tube bending software does not like these conversions. If import the curve into solidworks there is an option to lock endpoints to tangent when I do this the curves work and if I overlay the curves MOI vs SOLIDWORKS there are slight differences. I have included a sample file with both sets overlayed and the scroll file converted the manual way with endpoint locked to tangent. Someway of MOI being able two adjust to curves against each into a tangent position would be great.

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