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Inventor 2012 - Sheet Metal, how to 'bend' a plate


Ste1978

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I'm getting to grips with sheet metal. I know I can use the Contour Roll command to create a curved plate, however if I do it this way, when I create my flat pattern my plate is more than 100x100.

 

Problem: We have a number of 100x100x6mm Mild Steel plates which need bending, these plates have a series of small 6mm holes in them, I want to create a flat pattern for profiling.

 

Question: In sheet metal, what is the best way to go about curving a 100x100 plate to a diameter of 254, so that when I then create my flat pattern I am left with a 100x100 plate.

 

If I use the contour roll comment, my flat pattern always ends up slightly larger then 100mm.

 

Hope that makes sense. I am trying to save me some time, I could do this the old fashioned way in cad....

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