Sheet Metal emboss

Normally, we would just put a couple sketched lines and a note in the drawing calling out the cross-brake.

Just follow the same process used to create other forming tools. I created the cross by doing 2 thin feature extrusions (for speed) but you can do it with 1 extrusion.

Works fine so give it a try.

--Todd

Make a forming tool yourself.

To create the desired shape, sketch the outside dimension of your part offset a plane for the depth(or height) loft, select the outside contour and the point this should create the desired shape and of course add fillets were necessary

Regards, Corey

woops forgot this

make a sketch with a single point constrained to the center of your outside contour

Hi Bryan,

I made up a little example that you can use any given panel, presuming you "prep" the form tool before place it by resizing it to fit your specific panel. You would also need to constarain the formed feature (vie sketch edit) to the center of the panel.

Hope this helps.

Since I was there, I also put a round louver vent that has 3-realism levels and is driven by a tidy little excel table.

I figured this was a chance to kick of the worlds smallest known set of SW sheetmetal forming tools(grin).

Regards,

SMA

By the way, I personally like the "just draw an X on the drawing and put a note" solution. Very pragmatic in my mind, but if geometric realism on the model is needed viva la lag de systema!

Got it.

Thank you all for your help.

-Bryan