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  Autodesk Inventor Tutorials
Sheet Metal - Tutorial for beginners  
 
Written by Edward M. Barnes  
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
 
This step by step illustrated tutorial provides instruction on creating a basic sheet metal part. Follow the below steps for details. 
 
1) Open Inventor as shown in step one to nine in the following link - Core Rod Extension - and draw a rectangle as shown in Figure 1.
 
Figure 1.  Click here to view larger image.
 
2) Add constraint to the drawing with general dimension and then edit the dimension as shown in Figure 2..
 
Figure 2.  Click here to view larger image.
 
3) Now click on {Use the Styles tool on the Sheet Metal Features toolbar to manage the styles for a sheet metal part. The styles include material type and thickness, bend allowances, bend parameters, and corner relief parameters. Most of these parameters apply to the entire part. You can override some, such as the bend relief, corner relief and unfold methods, on individual features } button in "Sheet Metal Features" panel. When "Sheet Metal Styles" dialog box appears it will be with default values as shown in Figure 3. Let us change the value of thickness to 2.5 mm and change the material to "Brass, Soft Yellow" as shown in Figure 4.
 
Figure 3.
 
Figure 4.
 

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