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3D Sheet Metal Service

Optimize your sheet metal process and skills

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Sheet Metal ISSUES

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One of the biggest issues that our sheet metal customers face is a disconnect between design/engineering and manufacturing dept.

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Typically this means:

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  • Engineering/design may not be providing the right information to manufacturing.

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  • The finished part does not match the engineering drawing, creating the need for revisions.

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  • Costs are incurred from specifying non-standard materials, gauges, and tooling.

The SOLUTION

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Our Sheet Metal Service is customized to solve your unique 3D CAD Sheet Metal issues.

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Certified 3D Cad experts will analyze your current sheet metal design and manufacturing process, including your Materials, Tooling, Forming Processes, Bend Calculations and Drawing Accuracy— to define your sheet metal standards and best practices. Then train your team to adopt the new best practices and become proficient with 3D CAD sheet metal.

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How does the 3D CAD Sheet Metal Service work?

An onsite service to optimize your sheet metal design to manufacture process

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We will analyze your current sheet metal design to manufacturing process and determine where your problems occur.

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This involves learning and understanding how your design team use 3D CAD sheet metal tools and create production drawings.

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If you fabricate sheet metal on site then this phase will also include gathering information from your CNC Programmer or Manufacturing Engineer to understand what are the most popular types of material you use, along with the gauges, dies, and forming tools used for fabrication.

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Work with your CAD Administrator or Power-user to set-up an optimized Sheet Metal environment. So that your entire team use a consistent set of 3D CAD sheet metal templates, tables, and settings.

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Optimization tasks can include: 

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  • Defining folders on the server for your sheet metal environment.

  • Defining Gauge, Bend and Punch Tables.

  • Creating the most used Forming Tools.

  • Creating Cut-list Table templates.

  • Installation and instruction on the use of #TASK sheet metal productivity tools for creating DXFs, flat pattern drawings, and more.

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We will implement your optimized process and train your team on the best practices and techniques for creating sheet metal parts and drawings. The custom training will be delivered at your office on your models.

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Implementation and training is tailored to your needs but can include the following:

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  • Create a typical part using the created gauge table

  • Apply forming tools that the CAD Admin created

  • Create a drawing using the templates and tables the CAD Admin created.

  • Customize the 3D CAD user interface to streamline the tasks and optimize performance

  • Discuss with the 3D CAD users about common issues and review some of their work. Show them best practices and provide solutions to their issues.

Why use our Sheet Metal Service?

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Every week we visit customer sites to help them be more productive.

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As Certified 3D CAD Experts we spend a lot of time learning the tools and discovering the best techniques to use 3D CAD effectively. We want to help your business identify and deal with sheet metal design and manufacturing issues, then pass on our techniques to your team.

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