Creo Sheet Metal Forming

One of my all time favorite forgotten pro e features is the ear.

Creo sheet metal forming.

How sheet metal forming components are designed in proe. Creo does not recognize the part when trying to convert it to sheet metal as picking driving surface. Rolling a sheet in creo hi there. After the forming you can trim off any excess just like a tool might do.

One way to do it of course it is to convert it as a surface copy surfaces convert to sheet metal and use offset tool. The ear can do some pretty cool things with tabs. A very user friendly command called create form is used for designing formed components in pro engineer. Perhaps you can consider a different approach make the form have more of the shape you want and punch looks like you have a die shape and not a punch it onto the metal that is a flat sheet rectangle with no other features.

With creo 4 now it s just as easy. The point to be noted here is that you can use either a sheet metal punch or a die but not both to create a sheet metal forming feature in pro engineer. There s also some rarely used features in sheet metal and a practically unknown feature in regular pro e that can help with bended tabs. See convert a solid part into a sheet metal part for details.

For this example to the part has designed roller forming. Cross break light bends added to sheet metal in order to stiffen its surface. But then the inner surface between the roller features leaves out. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend command.

Convert a part to sheet metal. Just convert the imported 3d model into a creo sheet metal part by defining a driving surface and you re ready to go. How to create sheet metal punch and die in creo. 3d cad files are created using a host of different cad packages and then converted into.