Bend Table

InsertDrawing DetailsBend Table

The Bend Table command inserts a bend table in the flat pattern view, with all the details of bends present in the sheet metal model.

The Bend Table command has the following two selectors in its selection list:

Flat Pattern View - Enables to select the flat pattern view whose bend table is to be generated
Position - Enables to specify the position of the bend table by clicking at the desired location in the Graphics Area.

On starting the command, only a flat pattern view can be selected so as to generate its bend table and also specify the location to place it.

Common behavior of the command:

All the data for the chart are taken from the reference model itself.
The "Material" column in the bend table will only be filled if the user uses the same material from the bend table to create all the bends in the model; else it will be empty.
Furthermore, when the bend table is created, the text on top of the bend lines in the flat pattern view will be replaced by the index numbers of the corresponding row of data in the bend table.
Once the bend table is deleted a warning is prompted to ask for the flat pattern view regeneration to restore the text on top of bend line — that is the numbers will again be replaced by the original text.

Note
The value set in the Size: text box in the Font area of the Text - Font & Frame category of Entity Properties defines the text height for the data in the bend table. Also, the table size gets adjusted automatically to perfectly enclose the text within it.

It is not possible to redefine the command once the bend table has been created. However, when the user makes some changes in the sheet metal model and regenerates its flat pattern view, the bend table will be updated accordingly.

This group's properties can be changed after the bend table creation by using the options available in the Edit Properties categories or from the Model Structure.

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Generate a bend table