Go over to your “feature” manager tree, expand the sheet metal feature, right mouse click on sheet metal one and go to edit feature.
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Now we will see how to apply and modify bend table for our sheet metal part. Application of Bend Table in Sheet Metal Part Open the bend allowance you will see the values are taken from the Machinery’s hand book, 26 th Edition. If you want to see a filled table, go into the bend allowance folder and notice there are four more sample tables which are completed. After opening the file, you will see the values are not filled in. Take a look at one of the four Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. That way you keep the original sample files intact. Tip: anytime you modify these files, first make a copy of the original file. Open it, double click on a sample text file and notice that this is nothing more than a regular text files that you can go through, edit and change the values as needed. Even though it’s a BTL extension which is renamed by Solidworks, this is still a text file. Inside of the sheet metal bend table folder, we have two subfolders: bend allowance and bend deduction and five sample tables. To find these bend tables, you need to go to the C drive, program files, Solidworks file/ Solidworks Corp (corporation), language, English and then sheet metal bend tables. It is recommended that you rename and edit an existing bend table provided by Solidworks. Whereas if you create an excel spreadsheet, it is embedded into a solid worksheet metal part file while you can create a new bend table by going to insert sheet metal, then table, then new. It is important to note that if you create a bend table as a text file, you will need to provide that bent table text file when you share the sheet metal part file. Solidworks recommend you use the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet unless you have legacy Bend tables from Solidworks 2000 or earlier. There are two types of bend table you can use: The bend table also contains values for bend radius, bend angle and part thickness. ( Solidworks Window) Types of Bend Tables Bend table allow you to specify the bend allowance or bend deduction values for a sheet metal part.įig.