With a dedicated sheet-metal design environment, Autodesk® Inventor® software includes a comprehensive set of tools to help you design, document and manufacture complex sheet-metal products rapidly.
Features
Sheet-metal styles—Generate flat-patterns that accurately reflect your manufacturing capabilities.
Sheet-metal flanges—Speed up the design of sheet-metal parts with complex flanges using intelligent 3D models that take your manufacturing processes into account.
Roll-formed parts—Create accurate digital prototypes that include roll-formed parts.
Transitional shapes—Design parts efficiently for ducting, material handling hoppers, exhaust hoods and other uses that require press-brake or die-form techniques.
Sheet-metal manufacturing drawings—Create accurate manufacturing drawings quickly to support sheet-metal manufacturing operations.
Unfold design workflows—Simplify the inclusion of punches, cuts, fillets, chamfers and extrusions that span sheet-metal bend plates.
Flat-pattern modification—Optimise flat-patterns to reduce costs.
Punch libraries—Define your own sheet-metal punch libraries to standardise punch usage and reduce computer numerical control (CNC) tooling costs.
Sheet-metal fasteners—Insert specialised sheet-metal fasteners into sheet-metal designs quickly.
DXF Output—Eliminate effort spent cleaning up DXF™ files for CNC machining.
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