Importance of Using Sheet Metal Parts / Environment in Autodesk Inventor

Sheet metal is an extension of the part modeling environment. The sheet Metal enables us to work with predefined attributes (tools)  including: material, bend relief, bend radius,  corner relief, gap values, punch representations and unfolding rules etc.  Most important  there is the facality to work on folded or unfoled model.

Any sheet metal part can be created easily using standard solid modeling tool.  But if you are using the sheetmetal environment for sheet metal parts modeling,  you will save a lot of time and effort. Specilized attributes (tools)  as I mentioned earlier, eliminat steps, even more updating styles will update the part. It means modification in design is possible at any stage without wasting time.
Watch the following video which is tells the basics of sheet metal in inventor software



And an intermediate level tutorial is can be watched below....

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