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How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

(OP)
I made a sheet metal part in V5R3 by using Extrusion, Wall on Edge, etc. After that I made the Automatic bend and I am able to nicely Unfold the part. To round the corners I have to start the Part design Workbench and use the Fillet command. It is OK but in unfolded view they'll be never visible.
Have somebody an idea how to obtain the unfolded part with the real contour and rounded corners?
Thanks,

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

Hi,

Don't mix Part Design with SM. Just use cut in SM in unfolded part.

Regards
Fernando

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

(OP)
thanks Fernando. I'm new in SM and I just miss some commands like Fillet, Chamfer, Mirror.

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

Hi, jozsef!

Where did you find the mirror command in the Generative Sheet Metal Design Workbench?

Regards
Akesson

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

(OP)
Unfortunately I didn't find these commands in SM and probably they don't exist in this workbench.
Just I would like to have...

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

Sorry I thoght you've found them. I miss them as well especially mirror.

Regard
Akesson

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

(OP)
Hi Akesson,

I think I must change my idea how to build a SM part, it is a little bit different of Part design. If I look the problem from point of view of fabrication process, I must agree 100% that ferdo advised me: to use only cuts is logic because the real part contour is realized by cuts. But from point of view of creation of the model I don’t know why couldn’t we have these functions?
Maybe in a near future… I hope the Catia development team will think about this… Mirror is a big miss. Is there anybody who agree with me?

Bye,
jozsef

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

(OP)
Hi Akesson,

I think I must change my idea how to build a SM part, it is a little bit different of Part Design. If I look the problem from point of view of fabrication process, I must agree 100% that ferdo advised me: to use only cuts is logic because the real part contour is realized by cuts. But from point of view of creation of the model I don’t know why couldn’t we have these functions?
Maybe in a near future… I hope the Catia development team will think about this… Mirror is a big miss. Is there anybody who agrees with me?

Bye,
jozsef

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

HI Jozsef,

If you need something to mirror you have to use it in sketch.

Regards
Fernando

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

Hi,

If I would like to create for an example a cabinet that is symmetrical I normally only create a quarter of it and use the mirror command twice.

It would be nice to be able to use SM in a similar way.

Thanks for advice and useful ideas.

/Akesson

RE: How to round corners on sheet metal parts?

Thanks for your reply but unfortunately I’m not a member of COE.

/Akesson

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