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Sheet Metal Design – Comprehensive Methodologies to Create Sheet Metal Products

Autodesk Inventor has a specific design environment for the creation, editing, and detailing of sheet metal CAD components. Sheet metal parts are parts that are fabricated from a sheet of material with a uniform thickness. These sheet metal parts are subject to certain design constraints and sheet metal-specific manufacturing processes. Although specific to sheet metal parts, any parts that you create of uniform thickness in a standard part file can also use the sheet metal functionalities.

Within Inventor, sheet metal parts can be displayed as a folded model or a flat pattern. With the sheet metal functionality, you can work on sheet metal parts in both a folded ...

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