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.

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

Although not necessarily the norm i do get asked from time to time about removing the bend relief cut away from a flange.