Where to break???

[WPoe]

I've read a lot of articles about how to calculate the blank size of your material by using formulas for the bend allowance and K-factor. We have a Cincinnati Proform which is, of coarse, CNC. I am importing a DXF of the part that needs to be broken but the part doesn't have the bend lines. I have to insert the lines to tell the program where to break the part. I already know the size of my blank part, so how do I figure out where to put the break lines so that my flange dimensions come out correctly?

 

[ajack1]

Basically work out where the flat areas are.

 

[MikeHalloran]

Whoever worked out the blank size already knows where the bend lines have to be. Ask them.





Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA