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SolidWorks - How to bend already bended detail 1

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Fedchenko

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I have sheet metal part that already have many bends (this detail have fluted surface). Now I need to bend this detail to new profile in perpendicular direction to other bends. This is part of culvert.

How I can do this? If my explanation not enough understanable I can send scheme to specialist.
 
The situation you describe would involve deformation (stretching or distorting) of the material thickness & features in the part and SW cannot process that type of information. To remain a Sheet Metal part within SW, the material thickness must remain constant.

You could produce the part using regular SW features,(sweeps, lofts, etc) but you will not have the "flatten" functionality of a SM part.

[cheers] & all the best.
 
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