This training guide enables you to use your introductory modeling skills to create sheet metal models, including wall, bends, notches, and form features. On completion of this course, the student will have acquired the skills to confidently manipulate sheet metal geometry, adjust bend developed lengths, and convert solid parts.

Course topics:

• The sheet metal environment
• Primary and secondary walls
• Bend relief
• Corner relief
• Regular unbends, back bends, and cuts
• Notches and punches
• Bend features
• Unbending complex geometry
• Sheet metal forms
• Documenting a sheet metal part
• Converting solid parts
• Sheet metal setup
• Investigating a sheet metal part

Prerequisites: It is recommended to complete the following courses, or have the equivalent Creo Parametric experience:

• Creo Parametric 2.0: Introduction to Solid Modeling - Part 1
• Creo Parametric 2.0: Introduction to Solid Modeling - Part 2
• Creo Parametric: Core Update, Wildfire 4.0 to Creo Parametric 2.0

Author Biography

ASCENT develops and produces a wide range of courseware offerings, knowledge products, and courseware for the industry's leading engineering software tools from Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, and PTC. ASCENT's team is comprised of courseware developers, engineers, instructional designers, architects, and technical writers who work together to create training solutions that work for our clients. Our curriculum group specializes in the creation of blended education programs that incorporate the best of expert-led and technology-based training offerings to create the most effective course content and ensure that users achieve maximum productivity from their chosen engineering tools. We also work to meet our client's needs by offering different levels of customization for classroom-training curriculum.