SW 2006 Bend Notes - how do you get the included angle?

I don't know of any way to change it. But I also don't understand the issue - you move the material through 45° of motion, not 135°.

WT

That's true, but many of the programmable controls consider it a 135=B0 bend, so the operator would input the bendline location and the angle as 135=B0. If you dimension the drawing for your shop with the machine input, you can save the setup person some potential mistakes. We also typically dimension the bendlines also. We use ordinate dimensioning of features on the flat layouts for inspection, picking the two easiest edges to inspect from, and the bend centerlines from the probable gage edges for forming. Our setup guys love it and expect it, and I usually get the parts formed correctly.

If you are providing drawings for an outside source you may choose a different approach, so your vendor can use their own best practices without attempting to meet process based dimensions, instead of your design intent.

peace - Diego

Wayne Tiffany wrote:

Diego,

It sounds like your shop also uses the included angle. You are correct, that is why we put the included angle, to prevent calculation errors in the shop.

Do you manually edit the note? (Delete then enter the included angle)

Not usually - I have the angles in the formed views, usually thru insert model items, so that the angle dimensions on the formed views are the complement of the flat layouts. That way the setup guy has them both ways and when they pick up their protractor they can read it either way (is it 50=B0 or is it 40=B0?) - little things seem to help alot, and will win you valuable cooperation points from the guys who actually have to work for a living.

peace, Diego