[Sheet metal] Transition Fold: Uncross Sketches

Hello

On one piece, I had made a transition fold, no problem.
I need to edit my part and now SW crosses the sketches
Before:

After:

On classic straightening, you can grab a stitch and move it, but there is nothing.

Apart from redoing the function, is there a solution?

Hello
Have you tried by selecting your sketches directly in the featuremanager and not directly on the template?
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Hello @stefbeno

Judging by what I see, you have applied symmetry, but the semicircle has remained in its position.

If I'm right, I'd say redo the symmetry by being sure to include the semicircle, or at this point, apply symmetry (a horizontal flip) on its own to invert the positions of the up and down points.

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If the origin of the problem is the symmetry you suggest @Sylk, maybe simply reversing the normal of the support plane of the semicircle sketch can solve the problem... to be checked.

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Yes @Silver_Surfer , I was about to add it in my post, but I had a doubt, I'm not sure that changing the normal will return the sketch horizontally. To be checked, indeed :wink:

In the meantime, I resketched and it worked.
The idea of reversing normal will have to be tested.

And if not, did you try by changing the order of selection of your points? I see elevator arrows to do this next to your bounding box.

The arrows only allow you to change the order of the sketches (interesting if there are more than 2).

Otherwise, I had actually tried just in case.

Hello
For my part I will create 2 sketches on staggered plans so no more problem, the construction is clean. Modification possible without error, symmetry possible, facetization configurable without worries, same for sheet metal jigs

I just understood why you were talking about symmetry.
I didn't do any symmetry to build my piece, I reversed the dimensions and attached some sketch constraints.

Hello;

Wouldn't it be simpler to build the smoothing in 3D sketches.
Point selection is possible, and you can create trajectory lines...
The only small constraint is that you need as many segments in the initial sketch as in the arrival one.

Kind regards.

It happens to me quite often, 2 solutions:

  • You have to select the sketches close to the points that need to be connected (no matter the order)
  • If you find yourself like in your case with the departures and arrivals that cross each other, you go to one of the points and you drag it to the right arrival point and this changes the smoothing.
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