Most sheet metal materials will conform to the calculations.
Bend line on sheet metal drawing.
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A customer had recently called in looking for a way to show his bend lines on the drawing of his sheet metal parts and while some people may say the answer is simple there are several ways to get the bend lines to show or not show in your drawing.
For a flat layout sheet metal part is the bend line located directly in the middle of the bend allowance section or is it inset from one side by a distance of the bend radius.
Select the straight line and in the line type drop list select bend.
Select the outermost lines and in the z control set the thickness.
Draw a straight line where you want the bend.
In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature.
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Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click.
The following illustration shows the equation calculation for determining the bend line to mold allowance when forming sheet metal.
Sheet metal bend line notes allow.
Finally i demonstrated that to have the bend notes in the event that your bend notes are not shown you need to select your drawing view and choose a flat pattern as your view.
So for a u channel with an opening of approx.
Change the bend angle bend direction or bend radius and the notes update in the drawing.
Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide.
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The a will add the annotations which include the bend notes.
To view the bend choose view 3d.
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