forming tool

Is there to rotate a sheet metal forming tool during the insert process
or after it's inserted? The only way I know is to created another
form and rotate it 90 degrees.

Any help is appreciated.

B-

 

Hi there BB -

You can rotate a forming tool upon insertion.

When you insert it, you go into sketch mode automatically.

You can rotate the tool then. I usually have to constrain the point on
the reference guide sketch zero and then I rotate the guide sketch as
needed.

If you have inserted a form tool and want to change it, you can edit
the guide sketch. It will act like a standard palette feature.

Rotating the feature in the forming tool model is another option, but
you should be able to rotate the guide sketch to any angle.

Good luck -

Later,

SMA

 

Maybe I'm dumb here... when I rotote the guide sketch the form tool
does not rotate.

 

Make sure you use the "modify sketch" function NOT the "Rotate or Copy
entities" function.

refer picture
http://www.solidengineering.co.nz/mod-sketch.gif

The rotate or copy entities seems to work but it just rotates the sketch
tbe actual forming tool doesn't rotate with this feature --- It had me
stumped until I asked my VAR.

Regards

John Layne