Bend Line On Sheet Metal Drawing

Draw a straight line where you want the bend.

Bend line on sheet metal drawing.

So for a u channel with an opening of approx. 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. Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table.

Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. These bend notes will describe the bend direction bend angle and bend radius for each bend within solidworks. 4 56 distance between inside of legs would the distance between the bend lines on the flat pattern be 4 56. Sheet metal modeling and drawing with bend table.

To view the bend choose view 3d. 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. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. Select the outermost lines and in the z control set the thickness.

Hello friends if you guys planing to buy anything from amazon please send me the product details to my mai. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. Change the bend angle bend direction or bend radius and the notes update in the drawing. The a will add the annotations which include the bend notes.

Bend notes in your sheet metal part drawings are a clear way to provide the required information for manufacturing they can be automatically inserted into the flat pattern drawing view. Learn more about sheet metal. Select the straight line and in the line type drop list select bend. Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide.

Draw a 2d shape.