pic: Rastogi 8wd Iteration 1.2

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Second, you might consider putting flanges on some of those inside cutouts. Yes, it ends up a little heavier, but because the outer flange is not continuous you will suffer from low rigidity (and low resistance to bending) at certain points; use flanges to compensate.

I was thinking about this for a while, but I am not familiar with capabilities of sheetmetal manufacturing.

Could you, or anyone else, elaborate on what types of places flanges can be made on a part like this? I wanted to add flanges on some of the inside pockets but wasn't sure if that was easily possible. Like I said, I'm looking to learn about this as much as possible.

Thanks.