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Hello all, first time for me I'm stuck on sheetmetal !

 

Here's my problem. We have planned to make an aluminium sheetmetal 3mm thick part with just one simple bend. Our customer asked us to have a very small bend radius. As the part is only a cosmetic part (no heavy load or whatever) , we have thought of milling the bending area to make it 1mm thick on the bending zone. So it would look like something like this :

This one is made in solid mode. And of course I can't convert it to sheetmetal as it hasn't a constant thickness.

 

So I thought making it directly in sheetmetal mode, starting with a 1mm thick part. Then trying to thicken the part where I want. So far I thickened with surfaces but I can't solidify to make the part and it looks like this.

 

Your help is very welcome as we have to produce the parts this month !!

 

Thanks.


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