Bent Sheet Metal Drawing

Bending lines are drawn differently by different authors and in some shops.

Bent sheet metal drawing. Use the minimum bend dimension values in the charts below for your minimum closeness of cutout to a bend. Sheet metal drafting sheet metal drafting is merely the application of the principles of ordinary mechanical drawing to objects which for the purposes of drawing lack thickness. The diagram shows one such mechanism. Deep drawing practice.

Geometry of tooling imposes a minimum bend dimension. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. A customer had recently called in looking for a way to show his bend lines on the drawing of his sheet metal parts and while some people may say the answer is simple there are several ways to get the bend lines to show or not show in your drawing. This is a common occurrence when manufacturers receive a sheet metal layout dimensioned in the flat pattern.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. Refer to the chart for values for folder as well as various press brake tooling combinations. Cutting and forming thin sheets of metal usually performed as cold working sheet metal 0 4 1 64 to 6 mm 1 4in thick plate stock 6 mm thick advantage high strength good dimensional accuracy good surface finish economical mass production low cost. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing.

These dimensions may seem helpful but after your manufacturer makes bend deductions based on their capabilities and other bending factors your dimensions will become unusable. As mentioned the punch and die setup is somewhat similar to a sheet metal cutting operation such as punching or blanking. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part.