Curved Sheet Metal Bending

Sw2006 does have the flex but i am not familiar with it.

Curved sheet metal bending. Keep in mind that many kinds of fabricated metal have extremely high melting points and applying your torch injudiciously could cause damage or do harm to your sheet metal or equipment. This is done through the application of force on a workpiece. I am attaching one sample of this kind of bending the large radius curve. My question is generally how to bend or extrude a sheet metal along an odd shape curve could be any shape.

These sections are located at the edges. Converted it to sheet metal driving surface and then added a bend feature selecting one of the end edges as the bend line the bend radius would be change from thickness to whatever diameter you are. This is putting a simple hem on a curved piece of zinc with a 7ft radius. I would like to modify the model so that i keep the flat part as the generic model and the curved as the model used in the assembly.

The force must exceed the material s yield strength to achieve a plastic deformation. Edge bending is used to eliminate sharp edges to provide geometric surfaces for purposes such as joining to protect the part. Bending is one of the most common sheet metal fabrication operations. Using protective gloves hold the free end of the metal sheet with one hand and with the other hand use a mallet or hammer to begin bending the sheet down and around the curved radius of the wood form.

In the event that you are bending a thick piece of sheet metal you can apply heat from a blowtorch along the seam of your bend line to facilitate your bend. Start at one end and slowly work down to the other. All types of metal bending services plate rolling bending steel curving pipe tube bending.