Folding Bends and Flanges

You can fold bends. It also applies to cylindrical faces such as flange, bend and surfaces recognized as bend.

Before you begin:
  • Create a representation with two walls, a cylindrical bend and a wall on edge.
  • Unfold the bend using the Unfolding command. See Unfolding Bends and Flanges.
  1. From the Sheet Metal section of the action bar, click Folding .
  2. Select the fixed part of the body as the Reference face.


  3. In the Fold face box, select the cylindrical bend to fold.


  4. From the list, select the Angle type.
    1. Natural: When selected the angle is specify to the default bend value.
    2. Defined: Edit the input bend angle with the up and down arrow.
    3. Spring back: The angle of the bend is based on the natural angle with additional degrees, to consider Spring back.
  5. To fold anther bend , click the Add and repeat steps 3 and 4.
  6. Optional: To fold all the bending surfaces, click Select all.

    To remove the selection, click Clear all.

  7. Click .
    Important:
    • To fold a 3D shape with a bending cycle, each element of the cylindrical bend has to be selected individually.
    • You cannot create folded faces with null radius.