Best Way To Flatten Sheet Metal

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Best way to flatten sheet metal.

Hello i am trying to find out if anyone out there has a good technique for re flattening sheet metal after you have worked with it already. Then using a rubber dead blow hammer on a flat surface. In the cut list right click the body and click flatten. The reason for this is that metal tends to stretch when it is bent.

To return the part to its bent state. In the featuremanager design tree select the part and click flatten sheet metal toolbar. The process of straightening metal is one that while seeming easy is actually a fairly difficult thing to do correctly. In order to counteract this stretch you have to be able to shrink the metal back to its original position.

If you use this method of storage you re asking for trouble. No client wants a damaged piece of sheet metal. In either the featuremanager design tree or the cut list right click the flat pattern feature for the part and click unsuppress. By work i mean texturing snipping hammering sawing etc i have tried annealing re annealing the metal i am trying to flatten.

Sheet metal isn t all that different from a car s bodywork so most methods which will remove dents from a car work for sheet metal. One involves using a blow dryer or a paint stripper which emits heat to warm the metal of the dent. Sheet metal stored in this way is harder to pick up easier to scratch while you re trying to do so and occasionally dropped. When recycling scrap metal and when fixing broken metallic parts technicians and fabricators sometimes need to straighten out metal.

On a molecular level the increased heat causes the molecules of the sheet metal to become excited. To flatten a body do one.