Inventor Sheet Metal Cross Break

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Inventor sheet metal cross break.

Trying to add one bend across the path of another will obviously be difficult for your software to handle so typically they will just draw the bend lines without deforming the metal. Showing results for search instead for did you mean. Cosmetic centerlines allow the ability to utilize lines sketched on the flat pattern as bend lines within a drawing. A die formed lofted flange model that requires manufacture using a press brake cross break stiffening creases or flattened features which contain no bend zone extents spline face.

Designing and engineering a cross break most design softwares with respectable sheet metal packages will have a specific cross break function. Autodesk inventor sheet metal flat patterns support the creation and use of cosmetic centerlines and the resulting bend extent lines. I did some googling and the best solution i ve found for inventor is to do exactly this except you sketch it onto the flat pattern instead of the drawing but these were all from several versions ago.