Good Afternoon All,
My life right now is off-angle sheet metal as well as transitions, square to square, square to round, bolted, welded, you name I am trying to find a faster way to do it.
I created the attached assembly in about ten minutes. I saw a video from AU 2007 (ML301-1P) about thicken in sheet metal and it has cut hours from each design.
Keep in mind that I could probably send this to the shop and have it cut on the plasma cutter, rolled and welded very quickly.
This assembly is a concept of a fictional part, but the tools used for creating it can be used for so many advanced sheet metal shapes and connections. I challenge anyone that uses sheet metal tools every day to try this method for cutting across bends, it works really slick and fast.
I also added a dwf to the zip for people without IV2010.
Check it out and let me know what you think, I am always looking for new ideas,
Cheers,
Ryan
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