Creo Sheet Metal Edge Bend

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Creo sheet metal edge bend.

Corner relief adds relief to selected corners. Selecting done sets results in default radii being applied from part bend table. In this creo parametric video tutorial you will learn to add edge bends to your sheet metal model. Edge bend adds a bend to selected sharp edges.

1 go into creo files and edit the related files so your tube dimensions diameter and thickness appear in creo or just use a sheetmetal pipe which allows you to manually enter outer diameter and thickness. When you open legacy models created in creo parametric release 4 0 and previous releases in creo parametric 5 0 the tangent to bend depth option is replace by the on origin depth option. One of the primary methods for manipulating sheet metal is bending. Views 4259 views difficulty level intermediate adam haas ptc.

This tutorial is part of a course. Now you can use the draggers to change the angle or radius. The actual bend radius achieved on the hand bender in the workshop with this material is 1 7mm internal. Sheet metal convert operation.

As a result of this improvement geometry results are much richer. Amazingly i had to eliminate this tool too. There are 2 options from there. By this point i was pretty.

You can create two types of bends. Highlight bends and define and select all edges to be formed by bending. Click the options tab to control the length of the wall when you edit a bend. Ironically if i wanted to roll a flat sheet into a tube with a bent edge i could do that.

Edge bend is improved in sheetmetal design the edge bend feature supports a full list of relief types. Highlight edge rip and define and select the edges that will be discontinuous. If the pipe you want isn t there your almost out of luck. Start by selecting the bend surface.

From creo parametric 5 0 release the depth option tangent to bend in not available. I couldn t bend the edge of an already formed cylinder though. About converting to a sheet metal part. Click edit bend in the mini toolbar.

No matter which way i manipulated the marquee i couldn t get the right options to fold the edge the way i hoped. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend command. You can select relief types such as rip stretch rectangular obround or no relief in a way that is consistent with other commands you use when defining a bend relief. When the tangent to bend depth option is used in a relation the relation is maintained but the result produced will be the.