Sheet Metal Design – Comprehensive Methodologies to Create Sheet Metal Products
Autodesk Inventor has a specific design environment for the creation, editing, and detailing of sheet metal CAD components. Sheet metal parts are parts that are fabricated from a sheet of material with a uniform thickness. These sheet metal parts are subject to certain design constraints and sheet metal-specific manufacturing processes. Although specific to sheet metal parts, any parts that you create of uniform thickness in a standard part file can also use the sheet metal functionalities.
Within Inventor, sheet metal parts can be displayed as a folded model or a flat pattern. With the sheet metal functionality, you can work on sheet metal parts in both a folded and an unfolded state. Inventor enables you as the designer to set important sheet metal defaults/rules based on the equipment you have available for manufacture, for example, bend radii, K factors, material thickness, and corner seam...
