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Bend allowance table for sheet metal solidworks.
Check that you have the sheet metal bend tables folders set not just the templates.
The value of the bend allowance that comes from sheet metal suppliers and manufactures as well as engineering textbooks are provided in bend tables and bend table looks pretty much like the following excel spreadsheet.
If the thickness of the part or bend angle falls between values in the table the software interpolates the values to calculate the bend allowance.
Now to use this table for a sheet metal part all you need to do is to right click on sheet metal feature in the design tree and edit the feature then under bend allowance section select this new custom made table.
Even though bend allowance table is in my system swx is not detecting it.
But aside from that we ve found it a good idea to save the deduction tables outside the solidworks directory so that when you upgrade to the new version you.
The values in this table do not represent any actual bend allowance values.
Other methods include bend tables k factor and bend calculation.
The bend table approach is probably the most accurate approach for calculating bend allowance.
The three main options that you will select between are.
Using a bend table in a sheet metal part.
The sample bend table is provided only for informational purposes.
Other methods include bend tables k factor and bend calculation.
Bend allowance and bend deduction calculations are methods you can choose to determine the flat length of sheet stock to give the desired dimension of the bent part.
A few items to note about bend tables in a text file.
When working in sheet metal we need to be able take a folded sheet flatten it and have an accurate size flat pattern.
You can calculate the developed length of sheet metal parts using bend calculation tables.
A sheet metal1 feature in the featuremanager design tree indicates a sheet metal.