Sheetmetal parts, add rounds to rips?

[drvogler]

Guys,

I need to convert an assemblies worth of sheet metal
parts' rips to pretty rounds.

Specifically, I have several parts that have rips in the
corners, and I have my sheetmetal vendor weld those and
grind them to a radius...

All this is great, but now I need to LSN print an
artistic model. If I sent sheetmetal files to the
printers, I get ramparted corners. The printer will not
add anything to geometry we send them. (Pro Weld just
puts a surface patch in there, and isn't translated to
the STL files either.)

So any body know a quick and easy way to blast in
radiused corners into a sheetmetal rips without me having
to go and re-make all the chassis parts?

Any help appreciated,

Dave

 

[gb123]

Try doing an unbend all, then add aradius (extruded material cutout) into each corner, then bend back all.

 

[78finn]

The other thing you can try is to save the entire assembly as a step file. Reopen the step file in Pro E. All the parts should now be generic Pro E parts. Add rads to all the areas you require rads, then convert the parts back to sheet metal parts. I have done something similar in the past - worth a go.

 

[telecomguy]

I'm not aware of an easy way. Seems like you'll have to convert to a solid and then manually add in the material to represent the solid weld/ground corners.


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[srieger]

I may be easier to simply hide the edges in the drawing. View; Drawing Display; Edge Display; change edge display to "Erase Line" and select edges.

 

[drvogler]

Thanks for the responses guys.

I exported them to STP as solids and went on an extrusion-
round-fest. Good enough to get a proof of concept.

Thanks again!

Dave