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shaise / FreeCAD_SheetMetal

A simple sheet metal workbench for FreeCAD
http://theseger.com/projects/2015/06/sheet-metal-addon-for-freecad/
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Create sheetmetal from surface body #385

Open luzpaz opened 1 month ago

luzpaz commented 1 month ago

Discussed in https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_SheetMetal/discussions/380

Originally posted by **rmdug** October 10, 2024 This proposal is linked to this non-issue : https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_SheetMetal/issues/378 In sheetmetal design it can be very handy to create first a surface body and then turn it to a sheetmetal: + surface creation For example: ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/10ee7647-31f7-4e7b-812b-877fc66db574) + sheetmetal creation: + set thickness; + set bend data (radius, K factor,…); + set corner data and free edges joints, + selection of bent edges For example (bent edges in red): ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/55fb59b3-f54c-4e98-aa5e-8164e8c512ae) This way of doing proved to be very efficient to do tricky shapes including unusual bend angles with the commercial software I use. Thank you for your great work : )