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Deep Drawing In Solid Edge
19 Dec 2004


Tushar Suradkar
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    Deep Drawing

    In this tutorial you learn how to create deep drawn sheetmetal parts that are typically created with a double-acting press.

    Normally you would use the Dimple command for the task.

    But there's a catch in that.

    Let see how to overcome hurdles in setting up such a part as shown in figure besides.

    Here the green surface is the original tab.

    The orange surface is produced by the first pass. This can be achieved easily using the dimple command.

    The tricky part is the blue surface.





    The first pass - sketch

    Create a rectangular tab of any size. See figure.

    Start the Dimple     command on the Features toolbar.

    Create a sketch as shown in figure.






    The first pass - Extents

    Drag it down and click to form the first step as shown.





    The Second pass - Sketch

    Next, start the Dimple command again and sketch on the green surface as shown.






    Second pass - Sketch

    Indicate the side.





    Second pass - Extents

    And click to specify the extent as shown in figure.






    Second pass - Limitations

    You will be greeted with a message indicating feature failure since the profile may be too close to an edge





    First pass - Modify

    Select the first dimple feature in the EdgeBar and click Edit Definition

    Click the Options button on the Ribbon bar.

    In the Dimple options dialog, clear the Include rounding check box.

    Also clear the Automatically round profile corners check box.

    Finally, click OK and then Finish.






    First pass - Modified

    Your object should now look as shown in figure.





    Second Dimple - Again

    Try creating the second dimple feature again.

    This time the second pass should form without problems.

    See figure.





    Switch to Part

    From the File menu, select Switch to Part.

    Click Yes in the warning message.

    In the Part environment, round off the edges for the first dimple.

    See figure.





    Double dimple - Complete

    The down-side of this method is you cannot flatten such parts.

    But, this way you can trick Solid Edge into accepting a second dimple on an edge that has already taken one.






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