Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
(OP)
Hello. I'm trying to create a sheet metal part which consists of a corrugated sheet of steel being bent (please see attached picture).
The one in the picture was created using a sweep but I am hoping it can also be created using sheet metal features. We would like to unfold it, add a hole pattern, then fold it again so the holes follow the contours of the bends and so we can provide a flat pattern for the shop.
I already tried converting the sweep into a sheet metal part, using the forming tool to create the corrugations and then bending it, and I've also tried adding the corrugation and bends using the regular sheet metal tools but always end up with an error.
I'm using SW2009 SP4.0
Thanks!
The one in the picture was created using a sweep but I am hoping it can also be created using sheet metal features. We would like to unfold it, add a hole pattern, then fold it again so the holes follow the contours of the bends and so we can provide a flat pattern for the shop.
I already tried converting the sweep into a sheet metal part, using the forming tool to create the corrugations and then bending it, and I've also tried adding the corrugation and bends using the regular sheet metal tools but always end up with an error.
I'm using SW2009 SP4.0
Thanks!






RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
SWX cannot do this exactly as you would like. I would suggest you take a two-step approach; one with the corrugations to get the one dimension (vertical in your picture), and one without the corrugations, but with the big corner to get the other dimension and the hole locations.
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RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP
RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
I figured it wouldn't be possible but was hoping I was wrong.
I'll go ahead and try all three of your suggestions and see what works better for what we need.
Thanks again!
RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP
RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
You probably don't want to hear this but this geometry would be trivial whith new sheet metal tools in Inventor.
Look at it this way, if Inventor can do it how far behind can SolidWorks be with similar functionality?
RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
thread559-250791: Kudos to anyone who can do this
RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
One of the pictures I posted in that thread showed the Help screen for Contour Roll where it clearly says at the top of the screen that it is a sheet metal tool.
In the other picture I posted it shows the sketch, folded and rolled part and flat pattern for the OP's part.
I can supply more (impressive) examples if desired but I am afraid of being banned from this site if I carry the discussion too far.
CSWP
RE: Sheetmetal - bending a bend?
As for being banned from the site ... providing you are only responding to a question and not just promoting Inventor (or whatever) there should be no problem.