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Bend Allowance, Deduction, and K-factor

Bend Allowance, Deduction, and K-factor

Bend Allowance, Deduction, and K-factor

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I'm looking for a way to link data from a sheetmetal part, on to the drawing. I'm currently linking material thickness, inside bend radius and would like to list BA, BD, or K-factor. I do this for helping me check my parts to ensure parts meet customer standards. I'm having trouble with linking the BA, BD, & K-Factor of part. Can someone point me in the right direction.

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RE: Bend Allowance, Deduction, and K-factor

I do not know the answer to your question. I am curious about why you would want K factor? We are required not to do anything with K factor, because our vendor says that K factor changes from machine to machine and tooling to tooling. He says just forget it and they will deal with it for us.

Bradley

RE: Bend Allowance, Deduction, and K-factor

(OP)
Its a long story, but I know what you mean. Based on our customers process the we have a given k-factor for a 90deg bend. We have some customers that spec bend allowance and bend deduction. I'm only using as a check system. Its seems to be the one factor I can't link to.

RE: Bend Allowance, Deduction, and K-factor

Go to the SolidWorks Web site, log in and click in the left column Technical Support under Support. Then at the next window click API Support. Do a search there and if that comes up empty handed e-mail your question to:
apisupport@solidworks.com.

Bradley

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