Sheetmetal Design

New Form Tool

Flatten Form Enhancements

Pattern of Flat and Flange Walls

Mirror of Flat and Flange Walls

Coordinates Follow Unbends

Misc. Enhancements

Bend Relief Visual Cues

Hem Shape Handles

Flat and Flange Wall Enhancements

Sheetmetal enhancements promote fast and efficient design

Sheetmetal enhancements promote fast and efficient design

New Form Tool

Dynamic Preview

3 ways to assemble forms

– On Surface CSYS

– Assembly Interafces

– Assembly Constraints

Additional rotations may be specified

Auto rounding edges

– Placement edges

– Internal edges

Open base model via RMB

Merge or Reference

New Form Creation Capabilities

Form can be defined from any part

New “Punch Model” Annotation allows excluded surface definition

Define coordinate system as interface

Flatten Form Enhancements

Flatten forms crossing multiple surfaces

Retain form area on unbend and bend back

– See where the form is positioned…

The Ability to Pattern Walls

Flat and Flange walls may be patterned

Direction pattern is only supported pattern type

– Reference pattern may subsequently be applied

Flange and Flat Wall Mirror

True mirroring of flat and flange walls

Dependant sections

– Only prompt is for mirror plane…

© 2006 PTC

Csys to follow Bend

Additional attribute in CSYS definition

Follow bend and bend back

CSYS can be used to assemble PEM’s, etc…

Misc. Sheetmetal Enhancements….

Visual Cues for Bend Relief

See which side the relief is applied to….

Hem wall shape handles (Flange Walls)

Consistency between flat and flange

Allow shape handles to be shown by default

Custom wall sketch panel enhancements

– Make changes directly in the shape panel