How To Make Louvers In Sheet Metal

You can take your frustrations out on the finishing block.

How to make louvers in sheet metal.

Use an extruded cut to remove the base so that only the louver remains. Visit inventor products forums. Tell us about your issue and find the best support option. Get answers fast from product experts in the forums.

Please subscribe our c. The sides of the feature will not be slit. Add a fillet around the bottom edge of the louver. In this tutorial video i will show you how to make custom forming tool louvers in solidworks with the help of sketch feature tools.

Video shows the creation of parametric punch tool for sheet metal louver. Use light taps and work the metal into the die evenly. Create two revolved bosses to round out the louver. This forms a raised window in the part which is protected on three sides and open on the fourth.

The punch is quite an interesting piece a tool made just for this purpose. From start to finish it takes about ten minutes per louver. To make a louver you have to be carefully with using sketch planes. When formed the metal is slit across the length of the louver and forced up into the die.

Attachments louver ipt 0 17 mb louver ide 0. You can later use the punch tool in another model. Give it a few real good wallops. In this video lesson i will create a sheet metal punch file.

Use the forming tool tool to convert the louver into a forming tool. Sketch and extrude the louver profile. Drive the finishing block into the formed louver. Homemade louver press macromachines shows you how he made a very simple louver press for punching louvers in 1 16 aluminum.

This is the simplest way to make one of these presses and it works really well even on large panels.