Creo Sheet Metal Roll Bend

There are some methods you can use to roll your sheet but all of them have some problems you ll need to be aware of.

Creo sheet metal roll bend.

The split area splits the driving surface into two or more areas and you then add a bend to the surface you want to bend no need for an additional extrude to refill geometry. Now that you have a sheet metal part just go to the edit bend. The parts you are making are not made with a press brake using a straight bend s. See convert a solid part into a sheet metal part for details.

How to create sheet metal bend through flat area. Sheetmetal roll bend you can use sheet metal module to model these things but you can t generate a flat pattern using sheet metal. Create internal sketch. With creo 4 now it s just as easy.

For this kind of thing i think a spinal bend is a better choice than a toroidal bend. Just convert the imported 3d model into a creo sheet metal part by defining a driving surface and you re ready to go. I don t know what you re actual geometry is but i m not sure we are talking about the same thing. In this video you can learn how to create toroidal bend feature or how to create a tire rolling solid model.

So what i did was build the extrude converted it to sheet metal driving surface and then added a bend feature selecting one of the end edges as the bend line the bend radius would be change from thickness to whatever diameter you are wrapping the label on to. A toroidal bend will do a nice job of rolling the sheet but it won t keep rolling it back on itself like a spinal bend can.