Creo Sheet Metal Flange

Information regarding the difference of flange and flat wall features for sheet metal.

Creo sheet metal flange.

From creo parametric 5 0 release. When you add relief sheet metal sections are removed from the model. Just convert the imported 3d model into a creo sheet metal part by defining a driving surface and you re ready to go. With creo 4 now it s just as easy.

See convert a solid part into a sheet metal part for details. You can also add corner relief when creating a flange wall or a conversion feature. Use the corner relief tool to add relief to one or more corners of a sheet metal part. Below is the basic example of the flat and flanged walls.

Flange wall gives you control over the cross section of the wall. Using a variety of y and k factor bend allowance calculations designers can create flat patterns of the designs. This comprehensive suite of creo sheet metal design tools helps users create features such as walls bends punches notches forms and relief features. Here is the basic explanation for the two sheet metal options.

20 oct 2016 applies to pro engineer and creo elements pro wildfire to wildfire 5 0. You can see in the blue circle that the corner is not nice 4 create a new flange 3. I prefer using the flange wall feature in sheetmetal as this can be used with a surface loop. 2 create a flange 1 manipulated in the sketch option so i have two bends 3 create a new flange 2 with a chain.

Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend. Creo sheet metal training. Flat wall gives you control over the profile of the wall. You gan adjust edge corner gap as in pic under edge treatment.

In flange command select user defined from drop down list and sketch as below. Convert a part to sheet metal. Create a planar bottom. Creating sheetmetal flanges on cut angles i am trying to create flanges on the inside of a cut angle from a contour flange based drawing see attached file.

Select one edge then while pressing shift key click on bottom surface to select surface loop. It purely depends upon the shape of the part that decides which one to use.