Bend Line On Sheet Metal Drawing

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Bend line on sheet metal drawing.

Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click. Sheet metal modeling and drawing with bend table. A customer had recently called in looking for a way to show his bend lines on the drawing of his sheet metal parts and while some people may say the answer is simple there are several ways to get the bend lines to show or not show in your drawing. Draw a straight line where you want the bend.

The following illustration shows the equation calculation for determining the bend line to mold allowance when forming sheet metal. The a will add the annotations which include the bend notes. Most sheet metal materials will conform to the calculations. How to create sheet metal model with drawing in creo duration.

Select the outermost lines and in the z control set the thickness. Sheet metal bend line notes allow. 4 56 distance between inside of legs would the distance between the bend lines on the flat pattern be 4 56. Change the bend angle bend direction or bend radius and the notes update in the drawing.

Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. Bend sheet metal to create highly functional parts at low cost e g. Select the straight line and in the line type drop list select bend. Finally i demonstrated that to have the bend notes in the event that your bend notes are not shown you need to select your drawing view and choose a flat pattern as your view.

Mounting bracket. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. This page also includes a link to a on line calculator. Draw a 2d shape.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. For a flat layout sheet metal part is the bend line located directly in the middle of the bend allowance section or is it inset from one side by a distance of the bend radius. Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide. Learn more about sheet metal.

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