How To Bend From Sheet Metal

Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must.

How to bend from sheet metal.

Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. If you cannot find the sheetmetal tool in you main tool menu you can right click on main menu tab and check sheetmetal option. You will use the protractor to gauge the brake as you bend the metal little by little.

You know the basic try model. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming. Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten.

Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. To clamp efficiently lay your sheet metal on the top surface of your straightedge with the drawn line perfectly aligned with the outside edge of the sheet metal. Mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your bench. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius.

In other words if you re bending 1 8 sheet use a tool with a 1 8 radius to form the inside of the bend. I hope you like this video. Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench. Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials.

Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready. Using the edge of your workbench a length of wood two clamps and a mallet you can fashion a rudimentary bending brake. Determine the angle at which you want to brake the metal and mark it on the protractor. Look at part tree.

Now that you know your bend allowance take your protractor and draw a clear line with your marker across the point at which you will bend your sheet metal. Mark your bend lines. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool.