Creo Sheet Metal Edge Bend

Highlight edge rip and define and select the edges that will be discontinuous.

Creo sheet metal edge bend. Start by selecting the bend surface. From creo parametric 5 0 release the depth option tangent to bend in not available. Selecting a bend editing option. You can create two types of bends.

More examles how to use this featu. Highlight bends and define and select all edges to be formed by bending. View the full course. Sheet metal convert operation.

Relief support is improved for edge bend. The actual bend radius achieved on the hand bender in the workshop with this material is 1 7mm internal. By this point i was pretty. 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.

There are 2 options from there. Selecting done sets results in default radii being applied from part bend table. If the pipe you want isn t there your almost out of luck. As a result of this improvement geometry results are much richer.

In this creo parametric video tutorial you will learn to add edge bends to your sheet metal model. I couldn t bend the edge of an already formed cylinder though. Click edit bend in the mini toolbar. Edge bend adds a bend to selected sharp edges.

Corner relief adds relief to selected corners. 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. One of the primary methods for manipulating sheet metal is bending. Ironically if i wanted to roll a flat sheet into a tube with a bent edge i could do that.

Views 4259 views difficulty level intermediate adam haas ptc. Amazingly i had to eliminate this tool too. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend command. When the tangent to bend depth option is used in a relation the relation is maintained but the result produced will be the.

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. Now you can use the draggers to change the angle or radius. No matter which way i manipulated the marquee i couldn t get the right options to fold the edge the way i hoped. Edge bend is improved in sheetmetal design the edge bend feature supports a full list of relief types.