sheet metal forming

[traileng]

I am working on a part, and I can not get the bend function to work. Here is a description of the part. The part is an unattached wall withfour flanges on it, with thefourth flange returning to the orignial plane as thewall (bend down 90, bend over 90, bend up 90, bend over 90) This esentially creates a trough down the length of the sheet. Then I notched the trough with the v-groove. I want to bend the part perpendicular to the trough and close up the v-groove I created. this will create a part, with a trough that runs down over the edge.


I can not create the last bend feature to close up the v-groove. If is supress the last flange, it works, but as soon as I add the last flange, the flange that is parallet to the original flat wall, the bend fails.


Any help?


This is a pic of the part with out the bend I am trying to create.

 

[traileng]

here is the part with the last flange surpressed, and the bend works. I just need that last flange


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Edited by: traileng

 

[michael3130]

Any chance you can upload the part?

 

[traileng]

here is the file... 2009-10-01_090100_sb_body.prt.zip

 

[michael3130]

See attached file....it's done in a bit of a convoluted way but I did manage to get a result.


I tried a number of different methods but could only get the attached way to work.


Let me know if that's ok.


2009-10-01_103108_prt0007.prt.zip

 

[traileng]

thanks for the responce.


We are running wildfire 3.0. I can't open this file because it was created in a newer releace of pro-e. Can you save it as a wildfire 3 file?

 

[michael3130]

Unfortunately not, it's not backward compatible.


Can you give me your e-mail address and I'll take some snapshots and put them in a Powerpoint show to show you how to do it?

 

[traileng]

Unfortunately not, it's not backward compatible.


Can you give me your e-mail address and I'll take some snapshots and put them in a Powerpoint show to show you how to do it?

I guess thats PTC's trick to keep you coming back for more. I sent a pm with my email. Thanks for your help.

 

[michael3130]

2009-10-01_112623_Sheet_Metal_Forming_01oct09.zip





Thought it was too big to upload...it isn't so here it is

 

[cpoirier]

Try making a solid part and converting to sheet metal by shell.


This will eliminate the wall that fails.


Chris