Inventor Sheet Metal Box

On the ribbon click sheet metal tab modify panel corner seam.

Inventor sheet metal box.

I use the software regularly but could use a quick walk through on how to do this tricky part since it slopes two ways. And while there s nothing wrong with using the command that way you may be missing out on half of that commands full potential to create more complex designs faster and with fewer features. If you re anything like me you ve probably used the sheet metal face command thousands of times to create simple extrusions to start your sheet metal parts. The flange to be folded from the sheet metal box with 30 mm wide with standard radii.

Click ok to accept the measured thickness value. When you convert a part to sheet metal you are now prompted to select a base face. Autodesk inventor professional 2018. After you select a face the sheet metal defaults dialog box appears.

Tub rectangular through sheet metal autodesk inventor tutorial with caption and audio narration. I want to use inventor to make a real sheet metal box. Products and versions covered. The trickiness is that if this part were a box the floor is not parallel with what would be the top in either the x or y axis.

Share and vote on ideas for future product releases. Use the face edge distance measurement method instead of the defaulted maximum gap distance method. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern. This box has a bottom four sides and folded over to the inside flanges along the four edges.

Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal. Kelly young inventor technical support spe. Simple sheet metal trailer box. The measured thickness is displayed in the thickness value box.

This pick allows inventor to measure the material thickness for you. Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. Let s start with the rules of sheet metal. In the corner seam dialog box you can.

The box is an idea and to be sheet metal 1 5 mm thick and of 600x600x500mm high. I need to model this part in sheet metal in inventor.