Bend Line On Sheet Metal Drawing

To view the bend choose view 3d.

Bend line on sheet metal drawing.

Sheet metal bend line notes allow. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. How to create sheet metal model with drawing in creo duration. 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.

Most sheet metal materials will conform to the calculations. Md khaja 2 777 views. Draw a straight line where you want the bend. Change the bend angle bend direction or bend radius and the notes update in the drawing.

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. Sheet metal modeling and drawing with bend table.

4 56 distance between inside of legs would the distance between the bend lines on the flat pattern be 4 56. 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. Select the straight line and in the line type drop list select bend. Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click.

This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. Select the outermost lines and in the z control set the thickness. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. Bend sheet metal to create highly functional parts at low cost e g.

Manufacturing knowledge menu sheet metal knowledge sheet metal manufacturing and services. Mounting bracket. 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. So for a u channel with an opening of approx.

The following illustration shows the equation calculation for determining the bend line to mold allowance when forming sheet metal.