Inventor Surface To Sheet Metal

In fold location click one of the following to specify.

Inventor surface to sheet metal. Import the stl file into meshmixer. Click the bend line to use for the fold. Use analysis inspector to auto repair surfaces if necessary. Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness.

Tfi is now doing full professional inventor training courses on pluralsight. One method that is often suggested is to use the shell tool and then apply bends and corner seams to the edges. For manufacturing purposes details like bend radii and relief sizes are usually the same throughout the part. For example when you create a flange the bend is added automatically.

Unlike the bend flange contour flange or hem features which all add material to the design the fold feature does not add material. Think of the shapes you can make from a flat sheet of metal and a brake press. A sheet metal part is often thought of as a part fabricated from a sheet of uniformly thick material. Let s start with the rules of sheet metal.

A sheet metal part starts out as a flat piece of metal with a consistent thickness. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern. To embed this screencast choose a size.

Export the flattened surfaces to a new stl file. The inventor sheet metal environment is designed to flat pattern developable geometry. You enter the values for these details and then the software applies them as you design. Import the new stl file in inventor.

The autodesk inventor software provides functionality that simplifies the creation editing and documentation of digital prototypes of sheet metal components. However in autodesk inventor you can utilize the sheet metal commands on any design where the material is of uniform thickness. Open the free autodesk software meshmixer. It is necessary to convert the folded.

Inventor will not flat pattern pressed shapes for example a car door. Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal. A fold on a sheet metal face forms about a straight sketched bend line that terminates at face edges. Well there s no magic bullet inventor tool that will auto convert a solid part to a sheet part and add all the bends in for you.

Use edit unwrap to flatten the surfaces.