Bending Sheet Metal Box With Outside Flanges

While selecting edges for a multi edge flange edit glyphs display in the graphics window along bends and where the created flanges share corners.

Bending sheet metal box with outside flanges.

The way this one works is that you select the tool first found on the home tab sheet metal group. You can override the default sheet metal style settings using the unfold options and the bend or corner tabs on the feature creation dialog box. As one who daily works with sheet metal design and fabrication use outside flange lengths for several reasons. When bending a box small gaps should be left between the flanges.

Air bending one of the three types of bending for sheet metal where the outside mold line is not pressed against the die. Check the flat pattern. Bend line shift bls the distance from the outside mold line to the original bend line on the flat pattern. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured.

This is used to calculate the back stop location when working off of a flat pattern. There are many upsides to that. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. When bending a 2 sided box with only a bottom front and back it is possible to remove a section of the holder and let the punch for a bridge.

Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. When bending with large returns there are a few tricks outside of just tooling selection. Many sheet metal designs can be bent only with a press brake. Typically the upper beam or punch holder will get in the way of very deep boxes.

One thing to keep in mind is switching your cad view to flat pattern from time to time. Box bending can be rather tricky with sheet metal because of the geometry of a press brake. Otherwise the last bend can crash into the existing ones breaking the whole structure. Again notice that the corner is left with an open hole.

Then select the two bends that would be overlapping and set the gap distance between the inside edges of the flanges. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material.