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compound angle sheet metal
MDesign
Member Posts: 1,234 PRO
I'm trying to build some support brackets and I have a situation where I need to bend geometry around some compound angle. the mating surfaces are not perpendicular and the bracket legs are not perpindicular. Is this possible with the sheet metal tools? I haven't been able to figure it out. If not, how would you attack this to get the geometry as close as possible.
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There are a number of ways you could do this. It looks like you already have a part (or is that screengrab from somewhere else?) so you could just use the thicken or convert option to turn it into a SM or is your blue part already sheet metal but not at the right angle?
If you shared your doc we could help you better… But here are a couple "general" ways you could this:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b93a33985b8f9d3049c6adde/w/795e0248f03fdf0e83e0d0af/e/132da42e428bf40bc8f0caae?renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=6707fdaef855e26b06f1be06
You could also use "move face" with the rotate option using mate connectors to manipulate a SM part:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b93a33985b8f9d3049c6adde/w/795e0248f03fdf0e83e0d0af/e/be824e960787b6935b1d77eb?renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=6707fec8f855e26b06f1ca67
Here is one more way to accomplish this with a flange.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/342d1d0ace3232bf3a3c4e71/w/484e5ba6f1123a0f1c66e0ea/e/8e9cdb1e6746bdab9e18ee8c
Thank you both glen and eric. 3 different ways to accomplish this. Amazing. the move face method is intriguiing. Seems only valid with known angles though… I think. unless close enough is an option. Subtractive method geometry option interesting. Seems my missing info was that the sketches I had needed to touch for each of the flanges. I kept trying to join seperate pieces of sheet metal with the the tools having no luck. Thank you both. I personally like option #1 for my purpose for this project. The other options I'll keep in mind for next project. Definitely learned something.