SmJunctionCreate creates a junction feature on hard edges (sharp edges between flange faces) and bends or curved hard edges between two bends (or lofts).
Accessing the Command
command bar: smjunctioncreate
menu bar: Sheet Metal | Create Junction
toolbar: Sheet Metal | Create Junction
ribbon: Sheet Metal | Modify | Create Junction
Quad cursor menu: Sheet Metal | Create Junction
: SmJunctionCreate
Prompts you in the command bar:
Select hard edges or bends or flanges or 3D solids [Entire model] <Entire model>: (Select flanges, hard edges, bends or solids. You can also select "curved" edges between flanges and bends; between flanges and lofted bends; between two bends, or between two lofts.)
Entities in set: 1
Select hard edges or bends or flanges or 3D solids [Entire model] <Entire model>: (Select more items or right click.)
Command Options
Option |
Description |
Entire model |
Analyzes the entire model to detect hard edges. |
Command Settings
The "Heal coincident junction" setting controls how BricsCAD recognizes junction designs with coincident faces and how they are converted to regular junctions.
Related Commands
SmBendCreate - converts junctions and hard edges (sharp edges between flange faces) into bends.
SmDelete - removes a bend or a junction by restoring a hard edge between two flanges: removes a flange with all the bends adjacent to it. The adjacent flanges are extended up to a junction configuration and the flange is deleted. Removes miter by restoring the geometry cutaway by a feature.
SmDissolve - removes sheet metal data from the selected faces or entities.
SmFlangeConnect - closes gaps between two arbitrarily oriented flanges.
SmImprint - splits thickness faces of sheet metal parts with imprinted edges, according to adjacent flanges and bends.
SmJunctionSwitch - changes symmetrical junction features with overlapping faces.
SmReliefCreate - makes proper corner and bend reliefs. Corner reliefs are built on corners with three, or more, adjacent flanges. Bend reliefs are built on the start and end of a flange edge.