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I have created a Blog Article and Video comparing the Flange and Bend commands which may be helpful to anyone using sheet metal. In the Blog Article I give the link to a free application called Bendworks which is ideal for figuring bend allowances if you are bending which are normally automatically calculated when you use the Flange command, at least if you have your Sheet Metal Rules defined correctly.
John Hackney, Retired
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I have created a Blog Article and Video comparing the Flange and Bend commands which may be helpful to anyone using sheet metal. In the Blog Article I give the link to a free application called Bendworks which is ideal for figuring bend allowances if you are bending which are normally automatically calculated when you use the Flange command, at least if you have your Sheet Metal Rules defined correctly.
John Hackney, Retired
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I don't use Sheetmetal that often but have helped out quite a few times on the forum.
For example if you don't have the nesting add in you can't directly work on the flat pattern in a manufacturing model to create a nest using Arrange. The workaround is to derive the flat pattern out to another design and create your layout and toolpaths in the derived design.
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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I don't use Sheetmetal that often but have helped out quite a few times on the forum.
For example if you don't have the nesting add in you can't directly work on the flat pattern in a manufacturing model to create a nest using Arrange. The workaround is to derive the flat pattern out to another design and create your layout and toolpaths in the derived design.
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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If you have a Fusion 360 Subscription, you have access to the Arrange command, then this Blog Article and Video is for you. Since the Arrange command needs Flat Pattern components, of your sheet metal bodies or components, you need to have a method to develop these.
John Hackney, Retired
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If you have a Fusion 360 Subscription, you have access to the Arrange command, then this Blog Article and Video is for you. Since the Arrange command needs Flat Pattern components, of your sheet metal bodies or components, you need to have a method to develop these.
John Hackney, Retired
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@jhackney1972 You need to be careful using unfold rather than a flat pattern because some of the 3 corner reliefs are not created properly by unfold. I found this out while experimenting with different option and all the unfolds looked the same, the flat patterns had the correct geometry.
Mark
Mark Hughes
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@jhackney1972 You need to be careful using unfold rather than a flat pattern because some of the 3 corner reliefs are not created properly by unfold. I found this out while experimenting with different option and all the unfolds looked the same, the flat patterns had the correct geometry.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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