Sheetmetal corner seam tool
Just wanted to give a better example of where this would fit into my work flow.
Here is a basic example of a part I have made in the past. I made a rectangle base flange, fold up the tow short ends (different lengths) then fold up the sides (same length). The corners reliefs are good but there is gaps on the corner seams. Now if my goal is just to fill the gaps @promm suggestions work perfect and with the same effort as using a corner seam tool. But what I sometimes run into is changing the design slightly for manufacturability.
For example, if the part is stainless and it is to be welded I would likely want a tight corner (simple to do) and just fuse weld it. But if it is mild steel often I want to add a little filler and might want a partial overlap seam. But with Aluminum, I will want a corner to corner. This is where being able to quickly change some feature parameters becomes very useful. The added benefit is you override corner reliefs based on the seam.
with a simple design a manual fix I think will do it - with a more complex design this might add extra complexity to the timeline
and feature structure. Ideally it would be great if the SM tool can do this as a build in function
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
If you could edit the flange and there is an option to override the corner relief, would there still be a need for an additional button?
Regards,
Mike Prom
The video shown my Mike Promm has not guide about how to close the corners and how to overlap the edges with each other to seam them, especially thinner sheets do not require any corner relief in some products like furniture and also the edge overlap is more important for that.
Very simple question is how to overlap the edges as we need to bend them on CNC panel bender machine and need to have exact bending axis in position to get the overlap joint after bending.
Also the corner should not have any special profile, it should be straight with no relief.
Solution expected at earliest
Hello,
I am a little disappointed that this has not been addressed yet. I would consider a corner tool as part of a core sheetmetal package. It does seem like Sheetmetal has not had much attention sense the it finally became usable.
For now my only trick is starting a sketch on the edge and extrude it using "TO" to make sure it remains parametric. See images.
I can't believe it. This thread was started at the beginning of 2017 and now 5 years later in 2022 it still hasn't been addressed/solved? I'm no sheet metal specialist but this is a pretty basic request. I know what I need and it's nothing special so to use some comments copied from above which I totally agree with: "Correct corner management is the key" and "To not have a solution to this issue (after 5 years requesting it) makes this software more like a toy than a "Real" CAD package" and "Having loose sloppy corners is not acceptable, and having to manually adjust every corner is time consuming and not acceptable"
