How To Make A Sheet Metal Box With Curved Edges

Repeat steps 1 5 for the opposite side of your box.

How to make a sheet metal box with curved edges.

Lower the clamping bar handle down to clamp your metal into place. Make sure that it is lined up with the line you measured earlier. 2008 includes a new corner weld that cleans up sheet metal. We start the box by making its sides.

This will create a lip. Step 3 weld all seams. This is how easy it is to make a rounded edge on metal. What you can t do is unfold it.

Rounding metal with the bevel heads from beveltools ensure a smooth and consistent rounded edge on sheet plate pipe and hole. Step 4 grind flush. The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides. Minimise the gap setting to the least value allowed.

It s suppressed in the flat pattern. Step 2 is to tack weld the cornerfill into place. Now if you make the box by creating an extruded rectangle add fillets to all of the edges and corners and then shell the thing outward you can make that into a sheetmetal and add louvers and ports and stuff like that. Use your bending leaf handles to slowly fold your sides and tabs to 90 degrees.

You can create the perfect uniform radius with these bevel heads. Return your bending leaf to neutral position and lift up your teeth to remove your bent metal. Step 1 is to design the corners like shown in above image. Model a baseflange with the radius down to the bare minimum.

It is easier to cut off a 4 x 12 strip if you have a 12 x 12 sheet first then cut two 3 1 2 pieces from that strip. Create the rest of the bends with the mitre flange command. Once all of the squares are cut out you ll be left with the four flaps. Insert the first edge into a bending brake.