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Where to break???

Where to break???

Where to break???

(OP)
I've read a lot of articles about how to calculate the blank size of your material by using formulas for the bend allowance and K-factor. We have a Cincinnati Proform which is, of coarse, CNC. I am importing a DXF of the part that needs to be broken but the part doesn't have the bend lines. I have to insert the lines to tell the program where to break the part. I already know the size of my blank part, so how do I figure out where to put the break lines so that my flange dimensions come out correctly?

RE: Where to break???

Basically work out where the flat areas are.

RE: Where to break???

Whoever worked out the blank size already knows where the bend lines have to be.  Ask them.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

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