Hi all,
I am very new to solid works and am fumbling my way through while on the clock on active projects. I have visited most of the web help sites, the tutorials, and my handy dandy 2009 bible but I haven't found the answer to this particular question. If this has been asked a thousand times already, my apologies and please point me to the posts and I will be eternally greatful.
So my work is almost exclusively sheet metal. Mostly 1U rack mount type of enclosures. I find that I want to fold edges in a lot and if its a case where I can move the fold in the thickness of the side then there aren't any problems but sometimes, they need to be on the same plane and what I want to do is trim back the side flange so that it won't interfere with the folded section. I don't want a miter for very specific reasons but I can't figure out how to trim the flange.
I assume that one way to skin this cat would be to create a geometry on the base flange and used a sketched bend or something but to tell you the truth, I haven't been able to get sketched bends to work how I expect them too 100% of the time. I really like the ease in which I can create and edit with the edge flange tool but it always uses the whole edge. Can I make it use less than the whole edge?
I hope there is enough info here. What is the correct way to go about this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Rik
Ok, the simple answer is to edit the sketch of the edge flange. When you are editing the flange, there will be a button that allows you to edit the sketch. You can put holes in, make the flange shorter (but not longer than the underlying base), etc. You can also pick multiple edges in one edge flange feature. The advantage of this is that they will handle the intersecting corners very well, and they will all remain the same bend angle. You can still edit the sketch of each one individually. The downside is that all in that feature will be the same bend angle. :-)
So now knowing that, do you really want the lower RH corner in the pic to be a bend? Wouldn't it be easier to make the bottom flange be one flange bend up, just have that flange be multiple height?
WT