Folding Sheet Metal Inventor

Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness.

Folding sheet metal inventor.

Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal. The bend line must be placed on the face you are folding and must terminate at face edges. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. A fold on a sheet metal face forms about a straight sketched bend line that terminates at face edges.

Use the fold angle to set the bend angle and the bend radius to override the radius set by the sheet metal styles if required. In fold location click one of the following to specify. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending.

Use fold location to set what the sketched bend line represents the start of the bend the end of the bend or the centerline of the bend. Click the bend line to use for the fold. In this tutorial video we will learn sketch sh. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold.

Specify the location of the fold line. Click the bend line to use for the fold. Unlike the bend flange contour flange or hem features which all add material to the design the fold feature does not add material. The advantage to using folds over flanges is no material is added by adding.

Let s start with the rules of sheet metal. Use the fold command to fold a sheet metal face about a sketched line. Click to indicate whether the line defines the centerline start or end of the bend. You make a sheet metal component by cutting and folding a sheet of metal of uniform thickness.