Inventor Sheet Metal Flange Offset

The flange previews along the edge selected using the default parameters.

Inventor sheet metal flange offset.

Although you can typically select multiple edges when creating a flange using offset width you must only select a single edge. Select the glyph and a bend edit dialog comes up. When creating a flange of an offset width you select only a single edge. The sheet metal flange feature consists of a face and bend connected to an existing face along a straight age.

Select whether it will be a width offset or from to flange in this example i am using the offset flange. Learn more about the flange feature in this vi. The edge select mode is active. Create sheet metal flange with offset width create a flange and define its width as an offset.

On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel contour flange. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel flange. Create a contour flange. Create a flange and define its width as an offset.

Create a flange in sheet metal and specify the width of the flange. You can select each flange glyph and change how much offset you have on each one. Create a 2d open profile sketch. Here is the end result one flange has a 1 offset and the other has a 1 1 2 offset.

If there are two or more solid bodies in the part file click the solids selector to choose the participating solid body.