How To Roll Sheet Metal In Inventor

Apply cuts on sheet metal faces.

How to roll sheet metal in inventor.

To aid in the preparation of detail drawings. Create contour roll features as the base feature of your sheet metal part model or as a subsequent feature as required by your specific design. Like all inventor sheet metal features inventor will automatically create bends at line intersections. In this tutorial we are going to discuss about the contour roll tool in detail.

A common sheet metal manufacturing practice is roll forming. This tool is used when we want to create a sheet by revolving a profile consi. Select cut normal or cut across bend. The following image shows two examples of simple legacy rolls.

To aid in the preparation of detail drawings contour roll centerlines have a unique object type and are placed on a separate layer of the drawing. If there are multiple bodies in the part file click the solids selector to choose the participating body. Depending on the unroll method see below the sketch may need a center line. The contour roll starts with a sketch.

The sketch can only contain lines and arcs and must be an open profile. If there are multiple profiles click profile and then select the profile for the cut. In this tutorial video we will learn sketch sh.