I have a sheet metal part drawn up that I can't manufacture as modeled. The solution is to convert it from a two bend part into two single bend parts that will then be welded together. (I have an iLogic configurator that spit it out or else I would have drawn it right in the first place) Normally I would split it into two solids and derive them into two parts, but because Inventor still doesn't support multi-body sheet metal (this is something I curse about daily, by the way...) I would have to convert it to a standard part first. The problem here is, I have a ton of edits done to my flat pattern. I have an extruded tab that's needed for my press brake operator that later gets cut off, and I have a fairly complex sketch that I use to program my laser with etch lines for my welders to use. Does anyone have any ideas of how I can accomplish converting this into right/left parts without having to redo my flat pattern edits? Thank you in advance.
P.S. Don't worry about the missing reference dialog you'll get if you open the model, it's not needed for this problem.
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Just a thought we have parts as well that cannot be bent without cutting in half but what we do is laser cut as one then split it with the laser.
can this work for you as well?
LOL yeah the shop had issues when I 1st did it but now love it..
Wish I could give you more best of luck to you...
Can't you just place a midpoint workplane bweteen the 2 large faces, then start a new sheetmetal part, derive the previous part including the workplane, split at the then thicken/offset? I can't do it without the missing ref file.