Inventor Sheet Metal Cross Break

A die formed lofted flange model that requires manufacture using a press brake cross break stiffening creases or flattened features which contain no bend zone extents spline face.

Inventor sheet metal cross break.

Auto suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Trying to add one bend across the path of another will obviously be difficult for your software to handle so typically they will just draw the bend lines without deforming the metal. In the past when i ve needed cross breaks on a sheet metal part i ve always just sketched them onto the drawing and called them out as such. I did some googling and the best solution i ve found for inventor is to do exactly this except you sketch it onto the flat pattern instead of the drawing but these were all from several versions ago.

Inventor forum sheet metal cross break. Cosmetic centerlines allow the ability to utilize lines sketched on the flat pattern as bend lines within a drawing. Autodesk inventor sheet metal flat patterns support the creation and use of cosmetic centerlines and the resulting bend extent lines.