Sheet metal - preview bend motion

[stephenrottloff7259]

While developing sheet metal parts, having the ability to preivew a bend's motion would be very beneficial.  If a part has a bend and a feature that must clear other features, faces etc. while being bent, having the capability to show how the face goes through its bend motion will help .  Sometimes, I review inventor part's bend motion within Autocad.  This involves exporting, importing, copying, modyfying and then moving parts around.  A lot of time would be saved having this capability within Inventor's sheet metal part model.

Thank you,

Stephen R.

[drawings]

With multiple bends it would be helpful to designate the order of bend (not always the same ac model creation), then step it through the fold sequence will looking for tooling issues. This visualization of process helps understanding. This order of bend info could then be brought out in the bend notes on the drawing.

[inv.ideareview]

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