Stamping metal in Inventor

[skimmerman]

I am using Inventor 2011. I am trying to take a flat piece of sheet metal and stamp a small form onto one end. The purpose is to be able to slide a 3/4" ID hose over this end. The end would have a small arc profile to it so the hose slides on.
Would I make some sort of ifeature with this shape, and then insert the ifeature onto the flat sheet metal?
I am fairly new to working with sheet metal in Inventor, so if anyone has some ideas, a step by step explanation would help me tremendously.
Thanks

 

[rollupswx]

Sounds like a Hole and Revolve feature used to create a Punch tool.
Can you zip and attach what you have tried so far?

 

[skimmerman]

On the thin end, I need to punch a half-moon shape so a hose can be slid onto it.
Thanks

 

[mcgyvr]

can you model it as it should be?.. then we can help turn it into a punch for reuse.. Its quite a tough task to read your mind. Even "thin end" is left to my interpretation at this point.

 

[rollupswx]

Is something like this what you are after?

 

[mcgyvr]

^^see that is not what I would have guessed you needed nor what I would have called the "thin end"... Too much is left up to interpretation.

 

[skimmerman]

Sorry. I may have left too much up to interpretation. By thin end, I meant the end that is protruding out. Just like rollupswx had shown. Other than, I do not want the profile added onto my end, I want my end to be punched to form the half moon shape for a hose to be placed on. If possible.
Thanks soo much.

 

[rollupswx]

Are you going to make this in-house or send it out to a fabricator?

If outside fabricator - do they specifically request a flat pattern? (this is going to require a deformation which Inventor cannot flatten)

I would not have modeled the way you did - wayyy too much work. In general the Fold tool should almost never be used.

I'll try to work up another example of what "I think" you want when I get a chance, now that we've narrowed it down a bit.