How To Bend Sheet Metal

Determine the thickness of your sheet.

How to bend sheet metal.

Use line sketch l shape. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod. Click front plane and click on sketch. This measurement will be necessary for calculating your bend allowance.

You can use a tape measure or ruler to measure the thickness of your sheet metal. If your sheet metal is too thick you may need special machinery like a brake or a torch to bend your sheet into the desired shape. 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. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius.

Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. Set offset distance as 0 1in. Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend. In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten.

For dimension and more informat. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in. 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.

I hope you like this video. Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming. You will use the protractor to gauge the brake as you bend the metal little by little.

Determine the angle at which you want to brake the metal and mark it on the protractor. Mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your bench. Click offset entities and click l sketch. Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line.

Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench. Cut the section of metal out or otherwise prepare the metal to be bent by removing any burrs or sharp edges.