HDEAR Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 (edited) I got into grief trying to add a bend to a sheet metal vertex chamfer feature. Pic 1 - Shows the bracket with two bends and a vertex chamfer added Pic 2 - Add a standard bend Pic 3 - Unfold = undesired result! The square of the original material stock shows up !!! ???? Pic 4 - Instead, create a mitre corner feature and select the hypotenuse of the vertex chamfer feature where you want the bend to form Pic 5 - Bend created - NOTE! Make sure you do closed corners on the previous bends AFTER you add the mitre to the vertex chamfer, otherwise you'll get strange results Pic 6 - Unfolded ( if you're observant you'll see the odd result on the right hand side of the new bend because I performed the closed corners prior instead of after! ) Pic 7 - I actually now need the bend to go the other way, so I re-did the mitre and applied to the bottom edge Pic 8 - Unfold If there's a simpler way of doing this, I'm all ears. Oh, and if anyone could explain why 'Bend' created a problem with unfold, yet Mitre didn't, that would be great. Harley Edited November 27, 2014 by HDEAR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Allen Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Could you have edited the cross section of your original stock to create the corner chamfer? I tend to think of the Sheetmetal tools for "Vertex Fillet" & "Vertex Chamfer" as finishing options, so I don't add them until everything else is the way I want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDEAR Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 Could you have edited the cross section of your original stock to create the corner chamfer? I tend to think of the Sheetmetal tools for "Vertex Fillet" & "Vertex Chamfer" as finishing options, so I don't add them until everything else is the way I want it. 39573[/snapback] Thanks. Yes, I have since learned this is a better way to go. Being a newbie, I wasn't aware that tool ( 'Edit cross-Section' ) could be used to shape sheet-metal when I posted that so now I have to suffer some embarrassment Live and learn Harley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwalls558626 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Don't forget the "cut-sheetmetal" function also. This always works in these situations. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dberge Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 H-blocks work on sheetmetal also.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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