miter cut / corner releif of a chane flange bend
- April 9, 2024
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Hi, trying to understand how to get what I want. While I have options, nothing seem to change when various option are chosen..
1) I made a chain flange to have a nice flange about the 2 sides of an 'L' shape.
It then makes the flange, and creates both a corner relief and a mitered cut. If I choose "closed" I get a closed off corner, which is what I believe I want. But it does give a bit of a weird shape on the flat pattern.
It also gives a gap. The end of the gap isn't really 'tangent' to the inside of the corner bend radius, which I would have expected.
Now, if I have an open corner, the gap creates a little 'tooth' on each side of the mating mitered flange edges. (See mitered.jpg) I then need to do an unbend / bend back with an extrusion cut to remove these "bits", and get a simple 45°cuts on the flat pattern.. (See miter 2 & miter 3.jpg..)
2) while I have options to vary the corner relief, nothing seems to change with options chosen. So, no idea what these do or control.
I feel I am stuck with whatever Creo is programmed to spit out..
any help or direction to a better / concise explanation on how / what these options control?
dunno really how else to explain it..

