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amccaffrey-210-Marble
10-Marble
October 21, 2015
Question

Sheet metal part creation?

  • October 21, 2015
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Can the part attached, created in Creo 2, be made in sheet metal form? It has been created just as extruded forms but I now want to make a drawing, showing both folded and flat views for manufacturing.

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banderson-41-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 21, 2015

Andrew,

I opened the part and was able to use "Convert to Sheetmetal" by selecting a driving surface. One correction I had to make was to change the thickness of Extrude 5 to 5 MM. It was at 4.58 or something odd. The conversion fails if that feature is not fixed.

Brandon

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amccaffrey-210-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
October 21, 2015

Thanks for replying Brandon. Can you clarify your actions please as I'm not too familiar with what you have described. For example, what driving surface did you pick and what dimension ref? I could find 'convert to sheetmetal' under 'model' and then 'operations' but that was it!

Andrew

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汐xie1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 22, 2015

Hi Andrew,

The feature "Extrude 5" is strange, you need to change the thickness from 0.46 to 0.5, then use 'convert to sheetmetal' and select one surface (any surface) as the driving surface, then you can get the sheetmetal.

kdirth
21-Topaz I
kdirth21-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
October 23, 2015

Check out this video:  TRANSITION BEND - YouTube

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