Features

Current BS Tube tools for tube engineering work.

BS Tube focuses on the daily data entry, review, conversion, and project tasks used in tube fabrication.

Import Model

Turn supported STEP tube, rod, and bar models into manufacturing data.

Recognize supported hollow and solid stock, including multi-diameter round tube, then review the centerline and send generated XYZ to XYZ/LRA. Path and endpoint tools help resolve complex models.

View Import Model
BS Tube Import Model interface showing recognized tube geometry, generated XYZ, and a centerline preview

Unbend Model

Create full or partial unbend STEP geometry from supported bent tube models.

Work with supported round, square, and rectangular tube, choose the bends to unbend, apply global or individual stretch values, control cut-feature orientation, and export a STEP file for tube-laser workflows.

View Unbend Model
BS Tube Unbend Model interface showing bend settings, cut features, and an unbent square-tube preview

XYZ / LRA

Turn centerline coordinates into usable bend data.

Convert centerline coordinates into LRA bend data with CLR values and a live viewer. The converter guide also explains corresponding YBC feed, rotation, and bend-angle terminology.

View XYZ / LRA
XYZ / LRA screen

Image → XYZ

Turn photos into editable XYZ rows.

Import phone images, clipboard captures, or image files and review extracted values before import.

View Image → XYZ
Image → XYZ screen

XYZ to SolidWorks

Stop retyping bend data into SolidWorks.

Use imported XYZ coordinate data directly inside the existing SolidWorks workflow.

XYZ to SolidWorks screen

Split Tube

Review complex bends one section at a time.

Split LRA bend data into manageable tube sections while preserving the original path for reference.

Split Tube screen

Flat Layout

Generate production-ready flat layouts in seconds.

Create developed layouts with bend callouts, bend tables, decimal output, and landscape PDF export.

Flat Layout screen

Tube Report

Keep production details together in a readable report.

Export part information, tube properties, XYZ and LRA data, section details, and the current model view for review.

Tube Report screen

Bender Simulation

Verify bends before the machine runs.

Review tooling motion, clamp timing, feed, rotation, and bend sequence behavior.

Bender Simulation screen

Projects

Keep every engineering file together.

Store customer, part, material, tube, viewer, split, layout, and simulation data inside one project.

Projects screen

Material Library

Reuse engineering data instead of retyping it.

Manage material properties, density, reporting values, surface area, and part weight data in one place.

Material Library screen