Curved Sheet Metal Bending

Also known as press braking flanging die bending folding and edging this method is used to deform a material to an angular shape.

Curved sheet metal bending.

Edge bending is used to eliminate sharp edges to provide geometric surfaces for purposes such as joining to protect the part. This is done through the application of force on a workpiece. Start at one end and slowly work down to the other. In the event that you are bending a thick piece of sheet metal you can apply heat from a blowtorch along the seam of your bend line to facilitate your bend.

My question is generally how to bend or extrude a sheet metal along an odd shape curve could be any shape. All types of metal bending services plate rolling bending steel curving pipe tube bending. Converted it to sheet metal driving surface and then added a bend feature selecting one of the end edges as the bend line the bend radius would be change from thickness to whatever diameter you are. I am attaching one sample of this kind of bending the large radius curve.

Using protective gloves hold the free end of the metal sheet with one hand and with the other hand use a mallet or hammer to begin bending the sheet down and around the curved radius of the wood form. Bending operations are commonly used in industrial sheet metal processing and involve bending a section of the metal that is small relative to the part. The force must exceed the material s yield strength to achieve a plastic deformation. Sw2006 does have the flex but i am not familiar with it.

This is putting a simple hem on a curved piece of zinc with a 7ft radius. These sections are located at the edges. Bending is one of the most common sheet metal fabrication operations.