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Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:00:44 GMT

Is it possible to do the following for sheet metal:

Can you have multiple bend tables for the same material?

Does your bend table have to follow the structure or format of Inventor?

Thanks

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

Spoiwk — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:13:33 GMT

Hi yashin,

Yes you can define it for each thickness aswell,

Here a guide:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Inventor-Help/files/GUID-D186BB03-6995-46FA-B73F-575A45F2D370-htm.html

Hope that helped!

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

Frederick_Law — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:13:48 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hi
Is it possible to do the following for sheet metal:

Can you have multiple bend tables for the same material?
Not sure, I use k-factor only. We bend light gauge material so a few 0.001" doesn't really matter.

Does your bend table have to follow the structure or format of Inventor?
100% or else how could Inventor read and use it?

Thanks

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

mcgyvr — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:38:54 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Hi

Is it possible to do the following for sheet metal:

Can you have multiple bend tables for the same material?

Does your bend table have to follow the structure or format of Inventor?

Thanks

1-Each sheet metal rule can only have one default unfolding method applied to it..

You can have a sheet metal rule for each thickness of material and can create multiple sheet metal rules for the same material type/thickness..

2-I'm not sure what you are asking there.. Can you give a specific example of a reason you can't structure it like that or provide more details on why you asked that question..

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:51:11 GMT

Thank you for the responses

By "structure" I"m referring to the table format used for bend tables in Inventor. For instance importing an excel bend table into the software, it would have to follow the same format as the Inventor bend table?

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

mcgyvr — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:01:02 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Thank you for the responses

By "structure" I"m referring to the table format used for bend tables in Inventor. For instance importing an excel bend table into the software, it would have to follow the same format as the Inventor bend table?

Yes.. It should follow the same format as Inventor is looking for specific information in specific places

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

johnsonshiue — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:31:01 GMT

Hi Yash,

The quick answer to your question is yes. The format has to be the same. Or, you can copy and paste from Excel to Inventor Sheet Metal Bend Table.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:43:47 GMT

Thank you for the feedback,most helpful.

I have one more question,if you export your table from Inventor it comes out in a .txt file .I is it possible to get it back into a editable spreadsheet ?

I have opened up the .txt in excel the only issue is if you make changes to the bend angle the correlation correction does not update, in other words the cells loose their expressions or formulas.

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

johnsonshiue — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:03:18 GMT

Hi Yash,

Unfortunately, the Bend Tables are only exported as a text file, not an Excel spreadsheet.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor Sheet Metal Questions

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:02:06 GMT

thank you for the information.

You sir are a champion!!