The bend table approach is probably the most accurate approach for calculating bend allowance.
Bend allowance table for sheet metal solidworks.
Bend allowance and bend deduction calculations are methods you can choose to determine the flat length of sheet stock to give the desired dimension of the bent part.
The value of the bend allowance that comes from sheet metal suppliers and manufactures as well as engineering textbooks are provided in bend tables and bend table looks pretty much like the following excel spreadsheet.
Now to use this table for a sheet metal part all you need to do is to right click on sheet metal feature in the design tree and edit the feature then under bend allowance section select this new custom made table.
Using a bend table in a sheet metal part.
If the thickness of the part or bend angle falls between values in the table the software interpolates the values to calculate the bend allowance.
A few items to note about bend tables in a text file.
The values in this table do not represent any actual bend allowance values.
Other methods include bend tables k factor and bend calculation.
When working in sheet metal we need to be able take a folded sheet flatten it and have an accurate size flat pattern.
The three main options that you will select between are.
In solidworks this is achieved by selecting the relevant bend allowance options in the sheet metal tool.
How to fix this issue.
But aside from that we ve found it a good idea to save the deduction tables outside the solidworks directory so that when you upgrade to the new version you.
A sheet metal1 feature in the featuremanager design tree indicates a sheet metal.
The sample bend table is provided only for informational purposes.
You can calculate the developed length of sheet metal parts using bend calculation tables.
Even though bend allowance table is in my system swx is not detecting it.
Editing the default bend radius bend allowance bend deduction or relief type.