Defines a sheet metal face by adding depth to a sketch profile.
- Access
- Ribbon: Sheet Metal tab
Create panel Face 
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- Shape tab
- Specifies the sheet metal faces and the bend settings to use when joining two or more faces.
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- Selects one or more profiles to extrude by the sheet metal thickness.
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Single profile Automatically selects profile and previews the sheet metal face. -
Multiple profiles Position the cursor over the profile and click to select. To cancel the selection, hold down Ctrl and click profile.
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- Offset
- Changes the direction of the extrusion.
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- Bend
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- Bend radius
- Displays the default bend radius. On the drop-down list, select other options:
- Measure Uses a measuring command to calculate the bend radius value.
- Show Dimensions Displays dimension values that you can click to add as the bend radius value.
- List Parameters Shows parameters associated with the model that you can click to enter as a parameter name in Radius.
- Edges
- Selects additional sheet metal face edges to include in the bend. For a new sheet metal face, you can create a bend to an existing sheet metal face. Select the sheet metal edge for the bend if the profile for the sheet metal face:
- Overlaps with multiple existing sheet metal edges.
- Does not overlap any sheet metal edges.
The sheet metal faces are trimmed or extended as required to create the bends.
- (More)
- Single bends are created by default when you use the Face command. Selecting More provides options to define double bends. The options are not available for base features.
- Bend Extension
- See the Bend Extension reference to review the material on Bend Extension that is common to: Bend, Face, and Contour Flange features.
- Unfold Options tab
- For information about the Unfold Options tab, see the Sheet Metal default options reference.
- Bend tab
- For information about the Bend tab, see the Bends dialog box.