Sheet-metal bending
Brackets, enclosures and channels — cut, then folded.
Send the flat pattern with bend lines on a BEND layer. We cut it on the fiber, fold it on the press brake, and check every hole near a bend before anything is cut.
- Press brake: 1200 mm in 6 mm steel, 3000 mm in thin gauge
- Steel, galvanised, 304/316 stainless, 5052 aluminium
- Hole-to-bend and flange checks before cutting
- Powder coat in island colours
Start a bending job from $35.00 · 5–9 working days
What to send
Flat pattern (DXF) · .dxf
Export the flat pattern from Onshape, Fusion or SolidWorks. Put bend lines on a layer called BEND (or FOLD) — they show green, dashed.
Worked example
A solar-panel bracket, two bends, two dozen
EstimateEstimate
- Material · Aluminium 5052-H32, 1.6 mm · 0.063"144 cm² sheet per part × 24$36.00
- Cutting · fiber laser703 mm cut · 320 mm scored · 10 pierces · ≈ 13 s per part$24.96
- Bending · press brake2 bends per part × 24$56.97
- Brake set-up2 bends to tool$16.00
- Volume pricing8% off per part at 24-$4.88
- Setup & file check$15.00
Total · 24 pc$144.05
about 5 working days · $6.00 each
Computed live by the same function your job uses — from a real sample file read on the server just now.