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Had a meeting back in 2019 with the Inventor "Sheet Metal Team" asking the very same thing. After a few unproductive meetings they determined that this wasn't something they wanted to pursue. Very frustrating because we use ACM quite a bit in our discipline and having tools to properly V-groove and have a K-factor based upon the skin thickness (not overall material thickness) would save us quite a bit of time. Quite frankly, even after presenting all of the CNC processing details and folding instructions to the team - I don't think they understood what we were looking for. Oh well.
You have my vote - maybe something will come of it.
@kacper.suchomski - thanks for the video link. I really wish I had spent more time with my Polish Grandparents and learned their language. Would be really nice to follow this gentleman's narration as he presents.
Was able to follow easily enough, turns out he's using a procedure very similar to what we have tried. A lot of extra modeling to get the V-groove and U-groove (hem) correctly modeled. We have also used the ACM skin thickness alone (0.3mm Dibond / 0.5mm Alucobond) This works well - but then the panels are not represented properly in the model.
I have contacted the technical department of 3A Composites to see if they have any interest in creating a plug-in for Inventor that would allow their products to either be fully usable with the Sheet Metal environment - or something independent. Will post back here if there's any response from them.
