How To Make A Sheet Metal Box With Curved Edges

We start the box by making its sides.

How to make a sheet metal box with curved edges.

Lower the clamping bar handle down to clamp your metal into place. You ll be bending over the edges of these flaps to make smooth edges for the top of the box. Make sure that it is lined up with the line you measured earlier. Repeat steps 1 5 for the opposite side of your box.

Now if you make the box by creating an extruded rectangle add fillets to all of the edges and corners and then shell the thing outward you can make that into a sheetmetal and add louvers and ports and stuff like that. Bend the edge 90. What you can t do is unfold it. Insert the first edge into a bending brake.

Step 2 is to tack weld the cornerfill into place. Once all of the squares are cut out you ll be left with the four flaps. It is easier to cut off a 4 x 12 strip if you have a 12 x 12 sheet first then cut two 3 1 2 pieces from that strip. Create the rest of the bends with the mitre flange command.

It s suppressed in the flat pattern. You can create the perfect uniform radius with these bevel heads. Return your bending leaf to neutral position and lift up your teeth to remove your bent metal. The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides.

Step 4 grind flush. So mark out two 4 x 3 1 2 sections of sheet metal and cut it in the metal shear. This is how easy it is to make a rounded edge on metal. 2008 includes a new corner weld that cleans up sheet metal.

Rounding metal with the bevel heads from beveltools ensure a smooth and consistent rounded edge on sheet plate pipe and hole. This will create a lip. Minimise the gap setting to the least value allowed. Step 1 is to design the corners like shown in above image.