Download - Wildfire 5.0 New
Sheetmetal Design
New Form Tool
Flatten Form Enhancements
Pattern of Flat and Flange Walls
Mirror of Flat and Flange Walls
Coordinates Follow Unbends
Misc. Enhancements
Bend Relief Visual Cues
Hem Shape Handles
Flat and Flange Wall Enhancements
Sheetmetal enhancements promote fast and efficient design
Sheetmetal enhancements promote fast and efficient design
New Form Tool
Dynamic Preview
3 ways to assemble forms
– On Surface CSYS
– Assembly Interafces
– Assembly Constraints
Additional rotations may be specified
Auto rounding edges
– Placement edges
– Internal edges
Open base model via RMB
Merge or Reference
New Form Creation Capabilities
Form can be defined from any part
New “Punch Model” Annotation allows excluded surface definition
Define coordinate system as interface
Flatten Form Enhancements
Flatten forms crossing multiple surfaces
Retain form area on unbend and bend back
– See where the form is positioned…
The Ability to Pattern Walls
Flat and Flange walls may be patterned
Direction pattern is only supported pattern type
– Reference pattern may subsequently be applied
Flange and Flat Wall Mirror
True mirroring of flat and flange walls
Dependant sections
– Only prompt is for mirror plane…
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Csys to follow Bend
Additional attribute in CSYS definition
Follow bend and bend back
CSYS can be used to assemble PEM’s, etc…
Misc. Sheetmetal Enhancements….
Visual Cues for Bend Relief
See which side the relief is applied to….
Hem wall shape handles (Flange Walls)
Consistency between flat and flange
Allow shape handles to be shown by default
Custom wall sketch panel enhancements
– Make changes directly in the shape panel