SmFlangeConnect

Platinum Platinum Platinum

 Closes gaps between two arbitrarily oriented flanges.

Accessing the Command

command bar:  smflangeconnect

menu bar:  Sheet Metal | Connect Flanges

toolbar:  Sheet Metal |

Quad: Sheet Metal |

: smflangeconnect

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select planar thickness faces of two flanges: (Select the face on the first flange.)

Entities/subentities in set: 1

Select planar thickness faces of two flanges: (Select the face on the first flange.)

The flanges are connected.

If SELECTIONPREVIEW is 2 or 3, thickness faces of flanges highlight. Press the TAB key to select obscured faces.

Quad cursor menu

Select the planar thickness faces of two flanges, then choose Connect Flanges () in the Sheet Metal command group.

Command Options

No command options.

Procedures

Connecting flanges.

Related Commands

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.

SmFlangeEdge - creates one or more flanges to a sheet metal part by pulling one or more edges of an existing flange.

SmFlangeRotate - rotates a selected flange of a sheet metal part with automatic selection of the rotation axis depending on the design intent.

SmFlangeSplit - splits a flange along a line drawn on its face.

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 .