Bend Line On Sheet Metal Drawing

The a will add the annotations which include the bend notes.

Bend line on sheet metal drawing.

Learn more about sheet metal. Sheet metal bend line notes allow. Mounting bracket. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table.

Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click. 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. The following illustration shows the equation calculation for determining the bend line to mold allowance when forming sheet metal. Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide.

Md khaja 2 777 views. 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. Select the outermost lines and in the z control set the thickness. 4 56 distance between inside of legs would the distance between the bend lines on the flat pattern be 4 56.

Most sheet metal materials will conform to the calculations. Draw a straight line where you want the bend. Select the straight line and in the line type drop list select bend. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes.

This page also includes a link to a on line calculator. So for a u channel with an opening of approx. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. To view the bend choose view 3d.

In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. 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. Change the bend angle bend direction or bend radius and the notes update in the drawing. Sheet metal modeling and drawing with bend table.

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