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ChristophHechl1-Visitor
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March 7, 2011
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Looking for Tutorial for sheet metal

  • March 7, 2011
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Hi,

i am looking for a tutorial for the sheet metal package, i am trying to use it to create a cover over to existing parts and i was hoping it would help me design one that simply fits exactly to the existing contour and afterwards unfolding it so i get a drawing for the cutting machine.

Best answer by highway45

No problem modeling the sheet part as a normal volume.

Before using the unfold function you have to give the part a material and must declare every edges as bendings.

The bended edges must not be sharp but with radius in the correctly thickness of the sheet.

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DeanJohnson1-Visitor
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March 7, 2011

Maybe this will help ???

http://www.ptc.com/carezone/tutorials/files/sheetmetal_tutorial.pdf

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ChristophHechl1-VisitorAuthor
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March 7, 2011

Unfortunately it doesn't since i'm using Creo Elements/Direct (CoCreate Modeling) and not ProE and apparently the usage differs a lot between those two.

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DeanJohnson1-Visitor
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March 7, 2011

Ah, sorry. I use CreoElements/Direct. Click on help - help topics & it shows the basics on creating workplanes, adding lips, corner relief etc.

How complicated unit do you need to produce ?

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