Creo Sheet Metal Edge Bend

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Creo sheet metal edge bend.

Ironically if i wanted to roll a flat sheet into a tube with a bent edge i could do that. I couldn t bend the edge of an already formed cylinder though. 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. Highlight edge rip and define and select the edges that will be discontinuous.

Selecting done sets results in default radii being applied from part bend table. Corner relief adds relief to selected corners. Amazingly i had to eliminate this tool too. If the pipe you want isn t there your almost out of luck.

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. When the tangent to bend depth option is used in a relation the relation is maintained but the result produced will be the. More examles how to use this featu. Start by selecting the bend surface.

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. From creo parametric 5 0 release the depth option tangent to bend in not available. Highlight bends and define and select all edges to be formed by bending. Edge bend is improved in sheetmetal design the edge bend feature supports a full list of relief types.

No matter which way i manipulated the marquee i couldn t get the right options to fold the edge the way i hoped. There are 2 options from there. Click edit bend in the mini toolbar. Sheet metal convert operation.

About converting to a sheet metal part. By this point i was pretty. This tutorial is part of a course. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend command.

Now you can use the draggers to change the angle or radius. As a result of this improvement geometry results are much richer. View the full course. Edge bend adds a bend to selected sharp edges.

In this creo parametric video tutorial you will learn to add edge bends to your sheet metal model. Relief support is improved for edge bend. You can create two types of bends. Click the options tab to control the length of the wall when you edit a bend.