Sheet Metal Bend Bulge Relief

[andrewdroth]

It would be useful to have a bulge relief feature when working with thick sheet metal parts.

A simple bend will result in a bulge on the outside face of the material that can prevent proper fit-up with other parts. The solution is to cut a small relief at the edge of the bend to prevent this bulge.



Here's the feature in Solid Edge.

[bvLZ2FM]

Great feature, would also be handy as a combined  bendmark tool! 

[Yijiang.Cai]

Many thanks for posting the idea, and tracked as [INVGEN-398]. As to the current solution in Inventor sheet metal, we can have 3 steps to get it done. 

1. Unfold the bend

2. Place the Bend Bulge Relief on two ends of flatten bend

3. Refold it