Creates a new flange from a closed contour and attaches it to an existing sheet metal part.
Accessing the Command
command bar: smflangecontour
menu bar: Sheet Metal | Create Flange from a Closed Contour
toolbar: Sheet Metal | Create Flange from a Closed Contour
ribbon: Sheet Metal | Flange from Closed Contour
Quad cursor menu: Sheet Metal | Create Flange from Contour
: SmFlangeContour
Prompts you in the command bar:
Select flange face(s) and a closed contour:: (Select at least single flange and planar closed contour to finish input.)
The command extrudes a flange from a contour and connects it with selected flanges via bends.
Related Commands
SmFlangeConnect - closes gaps between two arbitrarily oriented flanges.
SmFlangeEdge - creates one or more flanges to a sheet metal part by pulling one or more edges of an existing flange.
SmJunctionCreate - converts hard edges (sharp edges between flange faces) and bends into junctions.
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 with the flange being deleted. Removes miter by restoring geometry being cut by the feature.
SmDissolve - removes sheet metal data from the selected faces or entities.