From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
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Making a cross break - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
Making a cross break
- [Instructor] A cross break allows you to stiffen a flat surface in a sheet metal part, and it's used extensively in HVAC panels or anytime you see a big flat surface that needs a little stiffening you can add a cross break. So to do that just we need to start off with a part that has something like an edge flange around the outside. And this is the surface here we'd like to stiffen, so then head over to Sheet Metal, click on Cross-Break and then just choose that top surface. And right away we get a visual representation of what's gonna happen here and you can see we've got this little arrow. If you click on it, you can flip the direction, but I prefer to have it out. You can adjust this band radius here, maybe we can make it a quarter of an inch, as well as the angle, and then just go ahead and click on Okay. And now you've got a nice visual representation of that cross break that you can put on your drawing for the sheet metal shop to add that stiffening feature to your sheet metal…
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