Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
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SBaugh (Mechanical)
(OP)
http://www.sheetmetalguy.com/tips_edge_flange.htm
Regards,
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP 
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376






RE: Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
RE: Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
Bradley
RE: Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT
RE: Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
RE: Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
Paul Persiani, CSWP
Design Engineer
Digital Design & Development
RE: Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
That is the first thing I looked at when I downloaded the 2007 beta software when beta testing started. We have a stamped part we modeled and built a tool for several years ago with an ogee curved flange. We made a test single hit tool for the form and made our best educated guess for what the flat blank should be, then went through a couple of lasered iterations to come up with the flat blank we eventually used in the prog die.
I took this flat blank that we developed for our design and overlayed it with SolidWorks 2007 calculated blank. The SW07 version did not create an accurate blank. It acts just like a bunch of discrete simple forms as it is going around the bends.
Still going to need your blank development software, etc. for creating accurate flat blanks on drawn forms.
Regards,
Anna Wood
SW06 SP4.1 x64, WinXP x64
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
www.auerprecision.com
RE: Sheet Metal guy pointing out a nice tip in SW07
But at least it’s a theoretical starting point and it UNFOLDS. Cause the best part of SW’s Sheet Metal to me is that the flat can be changed.
I think what people will use the curved flange most for is making an extrusion (flanged hole). That’s one of the first things I tried and it worked. Now an extrusion flat will be way off because of sever stretching, but it unfolds. You’ll have to fire up $10000 software to guess more accurately.