{"id":21088,"date":"2018-07-18T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=21088"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:50:03","slug":"how-to-change-a-solidworks-bend-note-angle-to-be-complementary-or-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2018\/07\/how-to-change-a-solidworks-bend-note-angle-to-be-complementary-or-inside.html","title":{"rendered":"How to change a SOLIDWORKS Bend Note angle to be Complementary or Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to change a SOLIDWORKS Bend Note angle to be Complementary or Inside<\/span><\/h1>\n

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What is a complementary angle?<\/h3>\n

What am I referring to with changing the bend note angle to be complementary? Unfortunately, this won\u2019t mean that your flat patterns will praise how great of a designer you are, but it certainly could help impress the manufacturing department! Check out the image below describing the difference between the supplementary and complementary angles as measured on a bent sheet metal part.<\/p>\n

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Explaination of Supplementary and Complementary angles<\/p>\n

Why would I change the Bend Note?<\/h3>\n

If your shop is using a European manufactured brake, it may require the bend angle to be input as the complimentary value, or in other words, the angle measured from inside the bend. By default, SOLIDWORKS uses the supplementary angle (outside measure) when detailing a flat pattern with bend notes. The great news is that there are multiple ways to adjust this setting either for one time, or permanently.<\/p>\n

Change the Bend Note for a Drawing View<\/h3>\n

The first, and easiest way will change all of the bend notes in selected flat pattern drawing views.<\/p>\n

In the Bend Notes section of the property manager, select the <bend-angle> text, and then click on the complementary angle button. This will replace the supplementary angle with the complementary measure for all bend notes in the selected drawing views.<\/p>\n

\"Change<\/p>\n

Update the Bend Notes section for a drawing view to change all Bend Notes in that view<\/p>\n

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If individual bend notes need to be adjusted, double clicking the note will bring up the defining text which can be adjusted in the same way.<\/p>\n

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Adjusting individual Bend Note contents is also possible<\/p>\n

Set it at the System Level<\/h3>\n

If you always want your bend angles to be Complementary, then this can be set at the system level by editing the\u00a0bendnoteformat.txt<\/em>\u00a0file found in the installation directory.<\/p>\n

Reference the\u00a0SOLIDWORKS online help file topic<\/a>\u00a0which will adjust this setting permanently.<\/p>\n

What else can be customized?!<\/h3>\n

If you\u2019re curious about other settings that can be adjusted, or if you\u2019ve been trying to figure out how to change a setting inside SOLIDWORKS, then search the\u00a0Javelin Blog<\/a>, attend one of\u00a0Javelin\u2019s training courses in your area or online,<\/a>\u00a0or simply contact us to see how we can help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See how easy it is to adjust the Bend Note value in SOLIDWORKS. … How to change a SOLIDWORKS Bend Note angle to be Complementary<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":21085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[2446,254,889,258,414],"class_list":["post-21088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-tips-tricks","tag-bend-note","tag-sheetmetal","tag-solidworks","tag-tips-tricks-108","tag-tutorial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088\/revisions\/21149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}