Creo Sheet Metal Shell
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Creo sheet metal shell. First shell is made in solid part second shell is for conversion to sheet metal. Creo cadds 5 sheet metal design option automates design and development of sheet metal components and folded plates including equipment chassis frames brackets and enclosures. Using a variety of y and k factor bend allowance calculations designers can create flat patterns of the designs. Download creo tutorials notes.
Creo parametric tutorials for design engineers pdf download. Overview this comprehensive suite of creo sheet metal design tools helps users create features such as walls bends punches notches forms and relief features. Select the create conversion feature the top icon to right of model screen and the smt. With creo s sheet metal design capabilities you can quickly and easily create walls bends punches notches and flanges.
Choose the method best suited to the design task by using a variety of modeling methods including 2d 3d idealized shell or. 2 2 sheet metal conversion 2 2 1 ripping the shell in figure 2 does not yet represent a piece of bent sheet metal as it is not yet obvious which edges are folded and which are not continuous ripped. When creating flat wall you have at corner of the bend line a white box which can be used for extending and. First shell thickness defines flange size.
Convert a part to sheet metal. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend. In wf5 with your solid model applications sheetmetal shell do not select any faces and then done refs you will be prompted for the sheet thickness type in value and enter in creo2 operations convert to sheetmetal enter your wall thickness and tick middle button. 10 drafts shell holes 11 creating trajectory and profile ribs 12 creating blends and swept blends 13 relations parameters 14 surface modelling tools.
Bend flatten cut and pattern par. Automate sheet metal design. In this tutorial we will learn about the basic techniques related to sheet metal functionality of creo parametric by modelling a cover. See convert a solid part into a sheet metal part for details.
Conversion feature is used for edge rips and rip connects.