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- Page 1 Dr Walt’s Quick Guide to Keycreator Sheet Metal Tools- Part 1...
- Page 2 Quick Guide to Keycreator’s Sheet Metal Design Tools- Part 1 Many users are not aware of the sheet metal design capabilities in Keycreator. The various tools are located in several different menu locations instead of in one common palette, so I recommend that you create a special sheet metal toolbar to simplify your work.
- Page 3 FLANGE Next, drag the EDIT SHEETMETAL BEND and UNBEND ALL Icons onto the toolbar. EDIT SHEETMETAL BEND UNBEND ALL Let’s also drag the SCRIBE FACE Icon onto the toolbar. Dr Walt’s Quick Guide to Keycreator Sheet Metal Tools- Part 1...
- Page 4 Let’s see how this works with a few simple examples. We’ll start with the simple teetotal case shown to the right. The finished part is available as design file “metalcase01.” Dr Walt’s Quick Guide to Keycreator Sheet Metal Tools- Part 1...
- Page 5 1 for the height. Use the cursor option to place the file anywhere on the screen. Now, switch to the Isometric View and Autoscale the display. Your part should look like this. Dr Walt’s Quick Guide to Keycreator Sheet Metal Tools- Part 1...
- Page 6 (Note: In actual practice we use a much smaller corner rip. I’ve made this one large so you can see what is going on.) Dr Walt’s Quick Guide to Keycreator Sheet Metal Tools- Part 1...
- Page 7 Although many sheet metal designers work with nominal zero radius bends on the inside corners of parts, Keycreator requires just a small radius here to make everything work. We’ll use 0.0001 for our exercise. Dr Walt’s Quick Guide to Keycreator Sheet Metal Tools- Part 1...
- Page 8 You are prompted for a radius value. Type 0.0001 and hit the ENTER Key. Now, click on each of the bottom corners on the part. (Again, don’t worry about inner versus outer edge. Keycreator is smart enough to know what you want!) The bottom of your part will now have true sheet metal bends.
- Page 9 This ends Part 1 of our exercise. In an upcoming Tips and Tricks we’ll explore more neat sheet metal operations, so save your sheet metal toolbar for future use! Dr Walt’s Quick Guide to Keycreator Sheet Metal Tools- Part 1...
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