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Using Bend Tool Cuts Flex Instead of Bending

Percept
Percept over 5 years ago

Hi gang,

I have recently discovered the ability to add bends to boards which is great as I have a flex design I'm working on with LOTS of folds and it's very helpful to see how it will look after folding. I currently have about 10 bends set up in the design, and all of them work exactly as you would expect them to except for one where instead of bending the flex at the bend line, it actually cuts the flex at the previous bend line (closer to the anchor point) and then bends, effectively forming two pieces. Even weirder: if I adjust the previous bend line's angle, it bends the flex normally....indicating that it knows the rest of the flex is connected when that bend line gets folded, but then cuts the flex when I try to fold the next bend line. Here's pictures to help illustrate the point:

Bending at the previous bend line everything looks fine:

But bending at the next line cuts the end of the flex off at the previous bend line:

For the record, the PCB is anchored on the section where U3 and those passives are located.

I thought the issue might be related to my outline, but I can't find any gaps (maybe they're there, but I don't see them). I have tried deleting the bend lines and recreating them, even moving the one where it cuts the flex slightly just to see if it would cut it in the new place (it does) because the bends tend to be on vertices in the outline and I thought maybe that had something to do with it. I moved the anchor around to different parts of the flex, and still just this ONE bend line gets cut while the other 9 or so work fine. Anyone got any suggestions?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • steve
    steve over 5 years ago

    Check that you are using the Design_Outline as the board profile and that the zones are defined correctly. Also make sure that none of the bends or keepout areas are not overlapping. If that is all fine make sure you are running the latest hotfix for 17.2-2016 S069 or 17.4-2019 S008. If that is OK you may need to upload the board to Cadence support / channel partner or to the forum for a closer look.

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