Folding Sheet Metal In Inventor

Specify the location of the fold line.

Folding sheet metal in inventor.

Many software packages like solid works inventor and solid edge will let you incorporate a bend allowance chart into its calculations when developing flat patterns. Let s start with the rules of sheet metal. 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. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold.

Creating a chart with your standard values is a key component of speeding up this process. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. Click to indicate whether the line defines the. Fold sheet metal faces.

Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal. In fold location click one of the following to specify whether the line defines the centerline start or end of the bend. 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. To create a fold in a sheet metal face.

Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern. Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. The bend line must be placed on the face you are folding and must terminate at face edges. The advantage to using folds over flanges is no material is added by adding folds.

Click the bend line to use for the fold. Unfortunately sheet metal bending is not always going to be the same in every shop. Centerline of bend.