Inventor Sheet Metal Box

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Inventor sheet metal box.

Share and vote on ideas for future product releases. Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. This box has a bottom four sides and folded over to the inside flanges along the four edges. The box is an idea and to be sheet metal 1 5 mm thick and of 600x600x500mm high.

Use the face edge distance measurement method instead of the defaulted maximum gap distance method. Let s start with the rules of sheet metal. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab modify panel corner seam. In the corner seam dialog box you can.

Accept the default seam type or select another of the three seam types. The measured thickness is displayed in the thickness value box. If you re anything like me you ve probably used the sheet metal face command thousands of times to create simple extrusions to start your sheet metal parts. Simple sheet metal trailer box.

The trickiness is that if this part were a box the floor is not parallel with what would be the top in either the x or y axis. I want to use inventor to make a real sheet metal box. Tub rectangular through sheet metal autodesk inventor tutorial with caption and audio narration. After you select a face the sheet metal defaults dialog box appears.

The flange to be folded from the sheet metal box with 30 mm wide with standard radii. Select a model edge on each of two adjacent sheet metal faces. Click ok to accept the measured thickness value. I use the software regularly but could use a quick walk through on how to do this tricky part since it slopes two ways.

I need to model this part in sheet metal in inventor. This pick allows inventor to measure the material thickness for you. If i design from a flat sheet the piece has a cross shape with little 45 degree cuts at the corners of the cross arms so that when y. And while there s nothing wrong with using the command that way you may be missing out on half of that commands full potential to create more complex designs faster and with fewer features.

Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern. Products and versions covered.