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Sheet metal corners - Help Making them look neat

thomas-buchan — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:16:42 GMT

I'm trying to teach myself sheet metal and one thing is eluding me, neat corners.

I've made a simple component (See attached file), I've watched some videos and made sure it was a new component and to use the flange tool but the corners always look odd, with one side stepping over, if anything i'd like a inner corners to meet so the outer corners leave a fillet for weld to be laid down into.

I went onto the sheet metal rules and made a new sheet, i changed the bend radius to get them to fit better together with less gap (It's only 2.5mm thick) but on the Corner conditions, what ever i pick the corner doesn't seem to change?

Any help appreciated as i'm still learning

Re: Sheet metal corners - Help Making them look neat

carl.j.barker — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:10:08 GMT

Make both flanges at the same time, make sure mitre is checked and use Arc weld as the 2 bend relief.

Re: Sheet metal corners - Help Making them look neat

thomas-buchan — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:45:31 GMT

Hi Carl

Thanks for that, they look alot better now.

Re: Sheet metal corners - Help Making them look neat

dskinnerWMQCL — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:21:38 GMT

Hi, when I try this process now I am still getting too wide of a gap between the flanges. Am I overlooking something?

Re: Sheet metal corners - Help Making them look neat

carl.j.barker — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:26:04 GMT

Have a look at your rules.

Re: Sheet metal corners - Help Making them look neat

dskinnerWMQCL — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:22:48 GMT

Thank you, that did the trick!