Folding Sheet Metal In Inventor

Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness.

Folding sheet metal in inventor.

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. Specify the location of the fold line. To create a fold in a sheet metal face. Fold sheet metal faces.

Centerline of bend. In fold location click one of the following to specify whether the line defines the centerline start or end of the bend. The bend line must be placed on the face you are folding and must terminate at face edges. Unfortunately sheet metal bending is not always going to be the same in every shop.

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 to indicate whether the line defines the. Click the bend line to use for the fold. 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.

The resultant model s flat pattern will be identical to the original un folded model. Click the bend line to use for the fold. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal.

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. In this tutorial video we will learn sketch sh.