Bend table for drawing, what does your company do?

We have a note that we manually have to type the bend angle and "bend
up/down".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/3eleven/SolidWorks/bend_table.jpg

I know theirs a better way to do this. Notes are cumbersome to edit.

Please post what your company does. Thanks.

 

we do the same. I saw mention of a macro that automatically adds the notes
here in the NG. I don't remember who wrote it and haven't tried it just yet
though I have been thinking about it lately.

Corey

 

Corey, have you ever used a excel sheet on a drawing? We thinking
about using one for the bend table, since its easier to edit than a
note.

We are still using 2004. Is there any negatives to using an excel
sheet as a bend table?

 

Except for SW native OLE I never really liked the non-native OLE spread
sheets. They are kind of funny to work with, and I found them hard to just
show the cells you want. I did use them once for a non production job.
Advertising wanted to show the free space around our different layouts of
safety rail and I found that an excel spread sheet got the job done the
easiest but I don't know if I would use it for the bend table.

A trick I use sometimes is if you dimension the bends in a side view you can
link the notes you add to the actual dimension, and hide the dimensions.
Then your note will update with any linked angle changes. I'm not going to
use a spread sheet for bends though. How complex are your parts? How many
bends? What percentage are parallel to eachother? Did you check out that
macro? I believe it was being offered for free.

Corey