Overview

Conventions

What's New?

Getting Started

Opening an Existing Sheet Metal Part and Entering the Workbench

Defining the Sheet Metal Parameters

Creating the Side Walls

Creating a Cutout

Creating Automatic Bends

Extracting Drawings from the Sheet Metal Part

Basic Tasks

Managing the Default Parameters

Editing the Sheet and Tool Parameters

Modifying the Bend Extremities

Defining the Bend Corner Relief

Computing the Bend Allowance

Creating Walls

Creating Walls From a Sketch

Creating Tangent Walls

Creating Walls From An Edge

Recognizing Walls From an Existing Part

Extruding

Isolating Walls

Creating Rolled Walls

Creating Bends on Walls

Manually Creating Bends from Walls

Generating Bends Automatically

Creating Conical Bends

Creating Bends From a Line

Creating Swept Walls

Creating a Flange

Creating a Hem

Creating a Tear Drop

Creating a Swept Flange

Redefining Swept Wall Limits

Unfolding

Folded/Unfolded View Access

Concurrent Access

Deactivating Views

Pockets

Creating a Cutout

Splitting Geometry

Stamping

Creating Standard Stamping Features

Creating a Point Stamp

Creating an Extruded Hole

Creating a Curve Stamp

Creating a Surface Stamp

Creating a Bridge

Creating a Louver

Creating a Stiffening Rib

Creating User-Defined Stamping Features

Creating a Punch with a Die

Opening and Cutting Faces

Editing User-Defined Stamps

Patterning

Creating Rectangular Patterns

Creating Circular Patterns

Creating User-Defined Patterns

Corner Relief

Redefining an Automatic Corner Relief

Creating a Local Corner Relief

Creating Corners

Creating Chamfers

Mapping Elements

Saving As DXF

Interoperability With Wireframe

Creating Points

Creating Lines

Creating Planes

Advanced Tasks

Integration With Part Design

Integration With Weld Design

Integration with Generative Drafting

Designing in Context

Designing in Context

Modifying the Design

Managing PowerCopies

Creating PowerCopies Features

Instantiating PowerCopies Features

Saving PowerCopies Features

Browsing the Sheet Metal Catalog

Looking For Sheet Metal Features

Workbench Description

Menu Bar

Sheet Metal Toolbar

Constraints Toolbar

Reference Elements Toolbar

Specification Tree

Glossary

Index