- Examination of the FeatureManager Design Tree
A Base Flange feature creates three new features in the FeatureManager design tree:
- Sheet Metal PropertyManagers
Sheet metal PropertyManagers help you create and modify sheet metal parts:
- Base Flange/Tab
A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part.
- Insert Bends
Insert bends allows you to convert a shelled part to a sheet metal part.
- Bends PropertyManager
The Bends PropertyManager allows you to convert a shelled part to a sheet metal part.
- Adding Sheet Metal Gussets
You can create sheet metal gussets with specific indents that go across bends.
- Sheet Metal Tabs
The depth of a tab feature is automatically set to the thickness of the sheet metal part. The direction of the depth automatically coincides with the sheet metal part to prevent a disjoint body.
- Tab and Slot
The Tab and Slot feature creates tabs on one body and slots (holes) on another body to interlock the two bodies. You can specify how the tabs and slots look and how they are distributed along the selected entities.
- Edge Flanges
You can add edge flanges to one or more edges.
- Miter Flanges
A miter flange feature adds a series of flanges to one or more edges of a sheet metal part.
- Swept Flange
You can create compound bends in sheet metal parts using the Swept Flange tool.
- Hems
The hem tool adds a hem to your sheet metal part at a selected edge.
- Sketched Bends
You can add bend lines to a flat face of a sheet metal part with a sketched bend feature. This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry.
- Closed Corners and the Closed Corner PropertyManager
You can add closed corners between sheet metal flanges.
- Flattening Sheet Metal Bends
- No Bends
You can roll back all bends from a sheet metal part in which bends have been inserted so that you can make additions, such as adding a wall. This is available only in sheet metal parts with Flatten-Bends1 and Process-Bends1 features.
- Jogs
The Jog tool adds material to a sheet metal part by creating two bends from a sketched line.
- Break Corner/Corner-Trim
The Break Corner/Corner-Trim tool cuts or adds material to a folded sheet metal part on an edge or a face.
- Corner Reliefs and Bend Transitions
You can apply corner treatments to a folded sheet metal body that will persist in the flattened state. You can view how the corner treatment impacts the folded sheet metal body and how it carries over to the flat pattern.
- Bent Lofted Bends
You can create a bent lofted bend to create physical bends, rather than formed geometry and approximated bend lines in a flat pattern. Bent lofted bends form a realistic transition between two profiles to facilitate instructions for press brake manufacturing.
- Lofted Bends
Lofted bends in sheet metal parts use two open-profile sketches that are connected by a loft. The Base-Flange feature is not used with the Lofted Bend feature.
- Unfold/Fold
With the Unfold and Fold tools, you can flatten and bend one, more than one, or all of the bends in a sheet metal part.
- Rips and the Rip PropertyManager
- Adding Weld Beads to Sheet Metal Corners
- Welded Corner PropertyManager
The Welded Corner PropertyManager allows you to add a weld bead to the corners of a folded sheet metal part, including miter flanges, edge flanges, and closed corners.
- Cross Breaks
In HVAC or duct work design, cross breaks are used to stiffen sheet metal. The Cross Break command lets you insert a graphical representation of a cross break in a sheet metal part.
- Bend Positions
In a miter flange, edge flange, sketched bend, hem, or jog, you have to select a bend position.
- Normal Cuts
With the Normal Cut tool, you can normalize all non-normal side walls in sheet metal models.