Creo Sheet Metal Shell

Creo cadds 5 sheet metal design option automates design and development of sheet metal components and folded plates including equipment chassis frames brackets and enclosures.

Creo sheet metal shell. In the creation. For this part i would use double shell method. Select the create conversion feature the top icon to right of model screen and the smt. Overview this comprehensive suite of creo sheet metal design tools helps users create features such as walls bends punches notches forms and relief features.

When creating flat wall you have at corner of the bend line a white box which can be used for extending and. Automate sheet metal design. Choose the method best suited to the design task by using a variety of modeling methods including 2d 3d idealized shell or. Download creo tutorials notes.

Conversion feature is used for edge rips and rip connects. In wf5 with your solid model applications sheetmetal shell do not select any faces and then done refs you will be prompted for the sheet thickness type in value and enter in creo2 operations convert to sheetmetal enter your wall thickness and tick middle button. In this tutorial we will learn about the basic techniques related to sheet metal functionality of creo parametric by modelling a cover. Just convert the imported 3d model into a creo sheet metal part by defining a driving surface and you re ready to go.

First shell is made in solid part second shell is for conversion to sheet metal. Bend flatten cut and pattern par. With creo s sheet metal design capabilities you can quickly and easily create walls bends punches notches and flanges. Using a variety of y and k factor bend allowance calculations designers can create flat patterns of the designs.

With creo 4 now it s just as easy. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend. First shell thickness defines flange size. See convert a solid part into a sheet metal part for details.

2 2 sheet metal conversion 2 2 1 ripping the shell in figure 2 does not yet represent a piece of bent sheet metal as it is not yet obvious which edges are folded and which are not continuous ripped.