SmBendCreate

Platinum Platinum Platinum

Converts hard edges (sharp edges between flange faces) into bends.

Accessing the Command

command bar:  smbendcreate

menu bar:  Sheet Metal | Create Bend

toolbar:  Sheet Metal |

Quad:  Sheet Metal |

: smbendcreate

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select flange faces or hard edges: (Select a face or a hard edge)

Entities in set: 1

Select flange faces or hard edges: (Select another face or hard edge or press Enter)*

* All selected items must be of the same kind: faces or hard edges.

Command Options

Procedures

Converting hard edges to bends

Converting hard edges to junctions

Related Commands

SmConvert - automatically recognizes flanges and bends in a 3D solid.

SmDelete - removes a bend or a junction by restoring a hard edge between two flanges; removes a flange with all the bends adjacent to it. The adjacent flanges are extended up to a junction configuration with the flange being deleted.

SmDissolve - removes sheet metal data from the selected faces.

SmFlangeConnect - closes gaps between two arbitrarily oriented flanges.

SmJunctionCreate - converts hard edges (sharp edges between flange faces) and bends into junctions.

SmReliefCreate - makes proper corner and bend reliefs. Corner reliefs are built on corners which have three or more adjacent flanges. Bend reliefs are built on the start and end of a flange edge .