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Best way to make sheet metal angled flange

campbellqn — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:44:44 GMT

Having trouble coming up with the proper way to do the tapered legs for my part. I was able to model it but can't get a flat pattern out of it.

Thoughts?

Re: Best way to make sheet metal angled flange

HughesTooling — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:16:15 GMT

Changing the face you used to add the draft fixes it, the face you use created overlaps on the bend rads in the corners.

Mark

Re: Best way to make sheet metal angled flange

HughesTooling — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:27:54 GMT

Didn't really like the version above so here's another go. I rotated the faces at a different level then used move to rotate the bottom faces of the flange and got rid of the split and removes.

Mark

Re: Best way to make sheet metal angled flange

campbellqn — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:12:42 GMT

So it took me a few trys to figure out the second thing you did compared to mine, along with changing the plane was to change from a 1 direction to a two sided draft for each draft. Thanks for the help!

Re: Best way to make sheet metal angled flange

lichtzeichenanlage — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 10:02:55 GMT

This is an approach without using moves, drafts and splits. As I'm a beginner this might have downsides, but I tried to solve the puzzle and why not showing the result 😉

Re: Best way to make sheet metal angled flange

campbellqn — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:08:59 GMT

interesting, one thing I adjusted playing with yours, instead of 2 lofts, use push-pull/extrude from that same projected sketch up to the side walls and join from there. Can be done from 1 op instead of 2. But I like that as a solution thanks!

Re: Best way to make sheet metal angled flange

lichtzeichenanlage — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:22:49 GMT

@campbellqn: I tried an extrude from the flange to the bottom plane but that failed. I totally missed the opportunity to extrude from the sketch to the flange. Thanks for pointing this out (and thanks for accepting my post as a valid solution).