Folding Sheet Metal Inventor

Click the bend line to use for the fold.

Folding sheet metal inventor. In fold location click one of the following to specify. To meet the manufacturing requirement of providing rounded bends at the joints of faces relieves at the bends hems at the edges and seams at the joints you need a special kind of solid modeling tool. 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. You make a sheet metal component by cutting and folding a sheet of metal of uniform thickness.

The advantage to using folds over flanges is no material is added by adding. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. Unlike the bend flange contour flange or hem features which all add material to the design the fold feature does not add material.

Click to indicate whether the line defines the centerline start or end of the bend. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending. A fold on a sheet metal face forms about a straight sketched bend line that terminates at face edges. 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.

In this tutorial video we will learn sketch sh. Specify the location of the fold line. Use the fold command to fold a sheet metal face about a sketched line. Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal.

Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. Let s start with the rules of sheet metal. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern.