Define the surface distance between two bending pockets

Axel_Kollmenter

Is there a simple way to define the surface distance between two bending pockets if the angle is not 90°? In the following pictures, the distance between the two marked surfaces should be exactly 10.2 mm. At the moment, I am slowly adjusting the length of flange 1 until the surface distance is exactly right. This can go down to the fifth decimal place....
Of course I could build the sheet metal model differently from the beginning, but I already have some features planned in this part and no time to do it again. It would be ideal to be able to say afterwards what the distance between the two faces should be, so that the flange length calculates itself for angles above and below 90°.

How can this problem be solved? Do I have to try it out measurement by measurement to see if it fits?

glen_dewsbury

use a material offset for you sketch with extrude sheet meta.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fd8d60e9de614fef424c4257/w/f74808f6a3a75c2ab5c832d6/e/ca3ea29c67e222cf9d89f47a

Axel_Kollmenter

Yeah I know I can use this, but I don't want to rebuild the part

glen_dewsbury said:

use a material offset for you sketch with extrude sheet meta.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fd8d60e9de614fef424c4257/w/f74808f6a3a75c2ab5c832d6/e/ca3ea29c67e222cf9d89f47a

glen_dewsbury

Take a look at the same document. I added and other example to use a move face no rebuild. There is also a feature script that will allow to bend with a line reference. Fold SM by M. Bartlett
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9f116620b0f6d04445f57293/v/2df4f2beeec4dae0b92bdf58/e/de11451baedbaa3f6c9bae51
What is there from before is examples of technique only. The latest sample is the same stuff but modifying original part.
Yes. Do not rebuild the original part if it can be helped at all. Can be a lot of down stream bits the refer to that geometry that could need correcting.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fd8d60e9de614fef424c4257/w/f74808f6a3a75c2ab5c832d6/e/ca3ea29c67e222cf9d89f47a

wayne_sauder

@Axel_Kollmenter
Is it not possible to add a reference sketch and then use the tools within the flange (up to entity end type etc...) to get exactly what you need? 

eric_pesty

Couple of ways to do it:
- Draw the flange at 90 and use a move face to rotate it.
- Or just use a move face on the top face using "Up to with offset" of 10.2 from the your reference.