Bend Line On Sheet Metal Drawing

Select the outermost lines and in the z control set the thickness.

Bend line on sheet metal drawing.

Bend sheet metal to create highly functional parts at low cost e g. Sheet metal bend line notes allow. 4 56 distance between inside of legs would the distance between the bend lines on the flat pattern be 4 56. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for.

Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click. Hello friends if you guys planing to buy anything from amazon please send me the product details to my mai. So for a u channel with an opening of approx. To view the bend choose view 3d.

Draw a straight line where you want the bend. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. Change the bend angle bend direction or bend radius and the notes update in the drawing. 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.

The a will add the annotations which include the bend notes. 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. Learn more about sheet metal. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table.

Draw a 2d shape. Select the straight line and in the line type drop list select bend. 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. These bend notes will describe the bend direction bend angle and bend radius for each bend within solidworks.

In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature.