Generative Sheet Metal Walls Overview

Generative Sheet Metal Walls Overview

Overview: The sheet metal process lends itself well to simple shapes that are typically formed using standard tools and processes. The easiest way to add stiffness to a sheet metal part is to create a wall, extrusion or flange thus making the part much more rigid.

Recognize

Automatically generates walls and bends from existing solid geometry. It also converts old sheet metal parts for use in the Generative Sheet Metal Design workbench.

Wall

Creates a wall from a sketched profile. Before you create bends and other sheet metal features in your part, sketch a basic profile and then create a wall from that which you can use to build on for your sheet metal part. You can also select a wall to which it may be tangent.

Wall on Edge

Creates a wall from an edge or stamp. This feature only works when there are previously defined edges in your part.

Extrusion

Allows you to extrude an open profile, giving it thickness along its length. The options available are similar to part design, which includes extruding by dimension, up to a plane, or up to a face.

Rolled Wall

Creates rolled walls such as closed and open pipes, and pipes with flanges and cutouts.

Hopper

Create a planar, conical, or cylindrical hopper using two planar profiles.

Flange

Creates a flanged profile along defined edges of a wall. You can adjust the bend radius, length, and angle to which the flange is tangent.

Hem

Creates a hem flange along defined edges of a wall. You can adjust the bend radius and length of the hem. By default, it curls back on itself producing a complete bend.

Tear Drop

Creates a tear drop shaped flange along defined edges of a wall. The tear drop geometry is defined in the sheet metal parameters based on the steel and bend radii allowed.

User Flange

Allows you to create a tangent flange that joins an existing wall or edge. You specify the edge to sweep and the spine sketch to extrude along. This can be useful when none of the previous bend shapes match your design. It allows you to create a custom bend and profile.