Sheet Metal Gauge Bend Table

Users can also specify the available default bend radius based on available tooling.

Sheet metal gauge bend table.

Bend tables and gauge tables come into play when working with sheet metal parts in solidworks. Preferred recommended 90 degree bend radii for various sheet metals. Steel american iron and steel institute 1 see aisi s fabrication guidlines for cold bending. Thickness minimum bend bend radius.

The bend table also contains values for bend radius bend angle and part thickness. As this happens you gain a small amount of total length in your part. Want all of our free solidworks sheet metal training videos. The location where solidworks reads these tables from is set in options system options file locations.

After creating the base flange by right clicking sheet metal in the featuremanager design tree and selecting edit feature. Understanding the bend allowance and consequently the bend deduction of a part is a crucial first step to understanding how sheet metal parts are fabricated. You can also specify k factor values in their own k factor bend tables. Select sheet metal bend tables or sheet metal gauge table to see the location where solidworks reads the tables from.

20 gauge 0 040 1 01 mm. Visit our learning library which features all of our training courses and tutorials at http. Tables are included in the solidworks application and are located in. 20 gauge 0 040 1 01 mm 0 2 5 08mm.

A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. Bend table you can specify the bend allowance or bend deduction values for a sheet metal part in a bend table. While creating the base flange from the base flange propertymanager. Where necessary 5052 h32 may be bent to 1t and 6061 t6 to 1 1 2t.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. Install dir lang language sheet metal gauge tables.