Creo Sheet Metal Edge Bend

1 go into creo files and edit the related files so your tube dimensions diameter and thickness appear in creo or just use a sheetmetal pipe which allows you to manually enter outer diameter and thickness.

Creo sheet metal edge bend.

No matter which way i manipulated the marquee i couldn t get the right options to fold the edge the way i hoped. Edge bend adds a bend to selected sharp edges. About converting to a sheet metal part. Highlight bends and define and select all edges to be formed by bending.

You can select relief types such as rip stretch rectangular obround or no relief in a way that is consistent with other commands you use when defining a bend relief. Sheet metal convert operation. You can create two types of bends. Amazingly i had to eliminate this tool too.

From creo parametric 5 0 release the depth option tangent to bend in not available. Relief support is improved for edge bend. As a result of this improvement geometry results are much richer. By this point i was pretty.

Now you can use the draggers to change the angle or radius. View the full course. Corner relief adds relief to selected corners. One of the primary methods for manipulating sheet metal is bending.

If the pipe you want isn t there your almost out of luck. Selecting done sets results in default radii being applied from part bend table. When you open legacy models created in creo parametric release 4 0 and previous releases in creo parametric 5 0 the tangent to bend depth option is replace by the on origin depth option. I couldn t bend the edge of an already formed cylinder though.

More examles how to use this featu. Click edit bend in the mini toolbar. Views 4259 views difficulty level intermediate adam haas ptc. In this creo parametric video tutorial you will learn to add edge bends to your sheet metal model.

Start by selecting the bend surface. There are 2 options from there. This tutorial is part of a course. Selecting a bend editing option.

Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend command. Ironically if i wanted to roll a flat sheet into a tube with a bent edge i could do that. Highlight edge rip and define and select the edges that will be discontinuous. Click the options tab to control the length of the wall when you edit a bend.