Getting a bracket fabricated

[Erie Fred]

I can only bend it with a miracle bender so it won't be the tightest radius going but may suit your purpose.

is that a big vice and a beeg hammer ?

 

[Morrisman]

If you've drawn it in 3-d, go to the flat pattern, click on the face, and then right mouse "Save as DXF"
If in 2-d just save the whole file "Save copy as DXF"

I actually drew it on a piece of cardboard.....

 

[Agroshield]

I actually drew it on a piece of cardboard.....

It is missing one dimension: the distance from the edge of the holes to the edge of the piece (assuming it is the same for all three).

 

[Erie Fred]

I actually drew it on a piece of cardboard.....

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Local fab shop get's allot of these "Farmer Walk-ins" and moan about the charges to draw it, to program
the machine. Most times, it's measure the cardboard, draw, print out, check against template, make more changes, etc.

Walk in with a DXF file on a stick/disk, and the price is much cheaper.

 

[cr500dom]

If you've drawn it in 3-d, go to the flat pattern, click on the face, and then right mouse "Save as DXF"
If in 2-d just save the whole file "Save copy as DXF"

That assumes you’ve set up the material properties, bend radii and k dimensions in the CAD package first
If not, your DXF flat pattern will at best be a guess.
If your hole positional tolerance is +-2mm you might be somewhere near it fitting but in 5mm plate it won’t be much better than that

 

[Erie Fred]

That assumes you’ve set up the material properties, bend radii and k dimensions in the CAD package first
If not, your DXF flat pattern will at best be a guess.
If your hole positional tolerance is +-2mm you might be somewhere near it fitting but in 5mm plate it won’t be much better than that

All of those things I do in real life.'
However.....I also realize holding hole locations over a bend is a problem, so many times
change holes to slots when I can.

Back in the 2-d days I would hand figure the bend development, and had charts for the K values.
Something the OP may have done.

 

[bricol]

That assumes you’ve set up the material properties, bend radii and k dimensions in the CAD package first
If not, your DXF flat pattern will at best be a guess.
If your hole positional tolerance is +-2mm you might be somewhere near it fitting but in 5mm plate it won’t be much better than that

My point at work when our newer members spend flippin' ages (due to how our system works) creating a flat pattern our suppliers then ignore

Even better are the ones somehow creating folds in metal that can't possibly be there, as they folded it away in a previous operation . . . but they manage to make it work in CAD.

And I do get wound up over metric dimensions to two decimal places on fabrications.

 

[Phil_D]

@Brad93 would be able to sort this

Brads only gone and knocked me one up, what a guy!