Creo Sheet Metal Flange

This comprehensive suite of creo sheet metal design tools helps users create features such as walls bends punches notches forms and relief features.

Creo sheet metal flange.

Just convert the imported 3d model into a creo sheet metal part by defining a driving surface and you re ready to go. Flat wall gives you control over the profile of the wall. In flange command select user defined from drop down list and sketch as below. Creating sheetmetal flanges on cut angles i am trying to create flanges on the inside of a cut angle from a contour flange based drawing see attached file.

Create a planar bottom. Convert a part to sheet metal. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend. When you add relief sheet metal sections are removed from the model.

Flange wall gives you control over the cross section of the wall. Using a variety of y and k factor bend allowance calculations designers can create flat patterns of the designs. I prefer using the flange wall feature in sheetmetal as this can be used with a surface loop. Here is the basic explanation for the two sheet metal options.

Creo sheet metal training. See convert a solid part into a sheet metal part for details. 2 create a flange 1 manipulated in the sketch option so i have two bends 3 create a new flange 2 with a chain. With creo 4 now it s just as easy.

I am not able to get the flanges to attach since the material thickness varies due to the cut. You can see in the blue circle that the corner is not nice 4 create a new flange 3. Difference between sheetmetal flange flat features in pro engineer and creo parametric modified. 20 oct 2016 applies to pro engineer and creo elements pro wildfire to wildfire 5 0.

Below is the basic example of the flat and flanged walls. It purely depends upon the shape of the part that decides which one to use. Information regarding the difference of flange and flat wall features for sheet metal. You gan adjust edge corner gap as in pic under edge treatment.

You can also add corner relief when creating a flange wall or a conversion feature. From creo parametric 5 0 release.