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Creating Forms from bent geometry

Brieldo

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This is my first post. Just like to say it's nice to be a part of the learning and collaboration here.


I have a sheet metal part I designed in its bent geometry and I now need to make the forms so it can be pressed in its flat form, facilitating the bent geometry. I've tried the punch/die creation within Pro/E WF 3.0 but it's always giving me errors about the base plane being invalid. Is there a better/easier way to create the forms for this kind of a project?
 
Can't you just use unbend? insert/ bend operation/ unbend


Do you have a picture of your model to see how it looks like?
 
If you have 3D deformation - meaning forms outside of the normal bending possibilities - then you preferably do this inside sheetmetal functionality and not by trying to convert a final part into sheetmetal. So die and punch are your tools.


The error message that you get sounds familiar and I think you can solve it by not using the base plane of the punch as a reference to indicate the travel it makes.
 

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