Rebend a Flattened Part

Sheet-Metal Design

General

  • The function rebends a 3D-flattened part.
  • Bending takes into account the stretching of the sheet according to the selected stretch calculation method.
  • A ruled face which is flattened can not be rebent.
    • Such ruler faces are the surface of a cone or the spline surface of a conical part, for example.
    • Thus, you cannot model a hole in a flattened cone surface and rebend the part into a cone.
  • If no new features have been added to the sheet metal part after 3D-flattening, the function Rebend deletes the feature Flatten Sheet from the part’s history tree.

Restore a flattened part back to a bent state

Select the ribbon bar function Sheet metal part | Tools | Rebend.

or

Select the context-sensitive function Edit Model > Rebend

Note:
  • If rebending is not successful, modify the features added in the 3D-flattened state.
    • For example, increase the corner trim feature values.
  • The stretch calculation method is a part property, which you can redefine by using the Properties function.