Hello everyone,
I've been having a lot of trouble with this part I've been working on. I'm trying to model an angle iron designed for cross bracing a tower with a tab at both ends which would connect to the legs. The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out how to make the face of the tab coincident with the face of the leg, while still having the main part of the angle iron remain parallel to the front plane. I tried using sheet metal (lower part in the front view image) to model the bends but not sure how to bend the edge flange in this type of direction. I also tried just creating a part (higher part in the front view image) and make the tab using bosses and cuts but it doesn't look feasible (Also I was planning on mirroring the scaling the part after I connect the tab to the leg). I've attached the files, it should be noted I'm using the academic version so I'm not sure if that will work with users who have the regular version. But any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
This is probably simpler than it looks Sanjiv. I made 3 new planes in your assembly and then added a couple of axis at the intersection of the planes. Started a new part in the assembly then made one sketch on each plane where they shared a common edge at the axis. Then planar surfaces, thicken, convert to sheet metal, then added an edge flange. I also made a couple of configurations of the cross member. One as if you were going to make the entire part out of sheet metal and another as if you to make it out of angle iron. The angle iron on flattens and the side flanges develop straight out parallel to the top and bottom. My part is a virtual part in you assembly. This is a 2015 file so I think you can open it.
Edit:.. I had attached a file then soon realized that the forming didn't match you pic. So here is a file with both methods. The one in magenta is my goof. I think the rust colored one is what you really wanted. You may want to alter the side flanges between an unfold and fold (like I did with configs in the magenta one) in order to have the flange top and bottom parallel with diagonal portion.