Sheet Metal Flange Inventor

To add a flange feature you select one or more edge and specify a set of options that determine the size and position of the material added.

Sheet metal flange inventor.

During the flange creation you may select multiple edges what s powerful about this is that inventor will auto mitre the face intersections and apply the proper corner conditions based on the sheet metal styles those little icons glyphs that appear on the flanges within the modeling window allow for the overriding of settings per flange. You can override the default sheet metal style settings using the unfold options and the bend or corner tabs on the feature creation dialog box. A flange feature consists of a face and bend connected to an existing face along a straight edge. Although the sheet metal face feature may be considered the most fundamental of sheet metal features sheet metal parts consisting of a single face are in the minority.

In the inventor sheetmetal environment users take advantage of the unfold functionality for creating flat patterns of a wide variety of materials.