Flange / Add Wall
Updated v2.3.8At a glance
- Fold a wall off any sheet edge by clicking its thin edge face — with a real radiused bend
- Fold flanges off previous flanges — fold direction, miters, and relief hold up as you keep folding
- Drag handles on every wall set Height and Angle right in the 3D view — drag through flat to flip the fold
- Pick several faces at once: all four sides of a plate fold up into a tray in one Flange
- Mitered corners with true flat-cut geometry at any angle — even against walls from earlier features
- Height datum and bend position options match Fusion 360 — Inner / Outer / Tangent, Adjacent / Inside / Outside
Flange adds walls to a sheet-metal part. Click the thin edge face where the wall should attach and it folds out with a proper radiused bend; only valid faces highlight while you pick. Click multiple faces to fold them all in one feature — a removable wall list lets you drop a mis-pick before you commit.
Corners
Where two walls meet, Miter corners (on by default) extends each flat toward its neighbor and cuts it back square through the sheet — exactly the straight miter line a plasma or laser cuts in the flat pattern, at 90° or any other bend angle. Corners that aren't square get the full treatment too: fold up two adjacent sides of a hexagon and the bends themselves are cut back along the corner, so the folded metal never overlaps itself at the sharper angle. A miter gap (default a quarter of material thickness) keeps the part bendable from a single sheet. Optional Corner relief punches a round relief hole at each corner, sized by its own radius input, so folds don't tear at the brake.
Flange on flange
Keep folding: pick a face on an already-bent wall and the next flange folds predictably off it, at any parent angle. Corners between walls on different parents — say, one on the flat base and one on a bent flange — get the same true square-cut miter, and the two walls never pass through each other. New flanges even miter against walls made by earlier Flange features: the older wall is trimmed and extended to close the corner as if both had been created together. Corner relief follows around folded corners too, aiming its punch along the shared fold direction; and where two bend zones would genuinely collide, the app warns and suggests relief or a gap instead of building metal a flat-cut part could never be.
Bend control
Set flange height, bend radius, and angle; flip the fold direction; add side gaps and end extensions. By default a wall folds toward the same side as the sheet's top face — the natural direction — and Invert flips it to the other side. Every wall also carries drag handles in the 3D view: pull the arrow along the wall to set its height, or swing the handle at the wall tip to change the bend angle — the preview folds live under your cursor. Drag the angle straight through flat and the bend flips to the other side of the sheet automatically; on a multi-wall flange, dragging any one wall moves them all together. Height is measured to Inner Faces / Outer Faces / Tangent To Bend and position is Adjacent / Inside / Outside / Tangent — the same definitions as Fusion 360, so a 1-inch flange means the same thing in both programs. An impossible height reports a clear error instead of a silently missing wall.