Punch Dies in Inventor Pro 2011

[21Pom]

Hi All,

OK I have my punch to set up which cuts holes in my metal sheet now I need to form it out using a die pushed into the hole formed by a punch.

Is this possible. I cannot find anything on this in Autodesk except for a few answers to posts say that it is being looked into.

Best Rgds,

Dave R

 

[rollupswx]

Sounds possible to me.
Do you have a picture of a similar feature?
Is the feature similar to any of the built-in punches?

There are a lot of (older) punch tools at cbliss.com

 

[21Pom]

Hi rollupswx,

Yep, the sixth one down is what I'm after so I'll play around with that to see if it gives me the end result I want.

Best Rgds,

Dave R

 

[21Pom]

Hi rollupswx,

Well I've spent most of today trying to get a handle on this without success and am now appealing for help. I attach the files downloaded from the link you gave earlier in the hope that you can point me in the right direction.

Best Rgds,

Dave R

 

[rollupswx]

The first sketch for a Punch must have a single sketch Centerpoint (this is different than the older punch tools on the cbliss site).

 

[rollupswx]

see attached image

 

[21Pom]

Hi rollupswx,

Thanks for that.

Yes I was aware of that from my previous effort with Punches before, that's not to say I would have forgotten to add that into my sketch!!

Where I was falling over was on the Sweep. I've never used Sweep that close together, always having large arcs to work on. I had another go this morning and moved off the central point of the arc by a very small amount and the Sweep operation worked. Prior to that the Sweep operation wouldn't work and I was getting an error message which I couldn't work out.

Any further advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

Best Rgds,

Dave R.