TUTORIAL: Pro/E Basic Sheetmetal Design (Part 1) – Unattached Flat Wall
Version: Pro/E Wildfire 2.0
Sheetmetal modeling in Pro/E consists of a different set of features that help us to create Sheetmetal model faster and more accurate. Features like bend, unbend, punch, Sheetmetal cut, corner relief, form, extended wall, flat pattern etc are created for Sheetmetal part modeling.
Most of the Pro/E Sheetmetal features are still using the menu manager (pre-Wildfire) interface. For example: none of Sheetmetal feature was being modernized in Pro/E Wildfire. Only two features (create flat wall and create flange wall) were modernized in Pro/E Wildfire 2.0 and new interface for first wall and Sheetmetal cut is introduced in Pro/E Wildfire 3.0. As what I can say, so far, more than 50% of the Sheetmetal feature has not been modernized yet.
There are many Wildfire users who are not familiar to the old interface. This tutorial is created base on Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0. |
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TUTORIAL: Create Form Feature using Punch
Version: 2001, Wildfire, Wildfire2.0, Wildfire3.0
Punch uses its entire geometry to create the form feature. Form feature is created by merging the interfaced punch geometry to the Sheetmetal part.
Below is an example of how the punch form feature is created in Pro/ENGINEER. 
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TUTORIAL: Create Form Feature using Die Version: 2001, Wildfire, Wildfire2.0, Wildfire3.0 Dies uses boundary plane and seed surface to specify the form geometry. Form feature is created when the specify form geometry interface with the Sheetmetal part. Using dies, you are able to create convex or/and concave form feature. 
Below is an example of how the die form feature is created in Pro/ENGINEER. |
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TIPS: Form Feature in Pro/SheetMetal Version: 2001, Wildfire, Wildfire2.0, Wildfire3.0 Sheetmetal form feature require a reference part (tooling) to merge the tool geometry to the sheet metal part in Pro/ENGINEER. So, before creating a form feature in Pro/SheetMetal, you are required to prepare the reference part (tooling) first. There are two types of reference part which you can choose to use, punch or die. Both types basically can create the same result. The image below illustrates the punch and dies in brief. No specific feature needed to create punch and dies. They are just a solid model with part file format (*.prt). 
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TUTORIAL: Modify bend radius during Sheetmetal conversion Version: 2001, Wildfire, Wildfire 2.0 & Wildfire 3.0 Pro/ENGINEER takes the default bend radius side and bend radius dimension from Sheetmetal parameters when a conversion is created. The default bend is always an inside radius type with the radius dimension of thickness value. After the rips are created, you can still able to modify the bend radius dimension at specific bend. |
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