How To Make A Sheet Metal Box With Curved Edges

Rounding metal with the bevel heads from beveltools ensure a smooth and consistent rounded edge on sheet plate pipe and hole.

How to make a sheet metal box with curved edges.

Lower the clamping bar handle down to clamp your metal into place. It is easier to cut off a 4 x 12 strip if you have a 12 x 12 sheet first then cut two 3 1 2 pieces from that strip. This will create a lip. Repeat steps 1 5 for the opposite side of your box.

Step 1 is to design the corners like shown in above image. Model a baseflange with the radius down to the bare minimum. You can create the perfect uniform radius with these bevel heads. So mark out two 4 x 3 1 2 sections of sheet metal and cut it in the metal shear.

Step 4 grind flush. What you can t do is unfold it. Bend the edge 90. Return your bending leaf to neutral position and lift up your teeth to remove your bent metal.

Now if you make the box by creating an extruded rectangle add fillets to all of the edges and corners and then shell the thing outward you can make that into a sheetmetal and add louvers and ports and stuff like that. 2008 includes a new corner weld that cleans up sheet metal. We start the box by making its sides. Use your bending leaf handles to slowly fold your sides and tabs to 90 degrees.

It s suppressed in the flat pattern. Once all of the squares are cut out you ll be left with the four flaps. Insert the first edge into a bending brake. Step 3 weld all seams.

Step 2 is to tack weld the cornerfill into place. The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides. You ll be bending over the edges of these flaps to make smooth edges for the top of the box. Create the rest of the bends with the mitre flange command.