Inventor Sheet Metal Cross Break

Designing and engineering a cross break most design softwares with respectable sheet metal packages will have a specific cross break function.

Inventor sheet metal cross break.

Auto suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for search instead for did you mean. I did some googling and the best solution i ve found for inventor is to do exactly this except you sketch it onto the flat pattern instead of the drawing but these were all from several versions ago. Trying to add one bend across the path of another will obviously be difficult for your software to handle so typically they will just draw the bend lines without deforming the metal.

In the past when i ve needed cross breaks on a sheet metal part i ve always just sketched them onto the drawing and called them out as such. A die formed lofted flange model that requires manufacture using a press brake cross break stiffening creases or flattened features which contain no bend zone extents spline face. I know this is less than ideal because it means that geometry is not accurately represented in the model.