[scottm]

I'm unfolding a customer's drawings to send them to laser-cut this morning. There are a lot of multi-segment straight lines I have to delete and make into one segment. Sharp corners get 1/16" radius so I don't have to deburr after laser. Tapped holes near bends are deleted, we'll have to drill & tap after bend, otherwise they'll distort too much when bending. Slots are great, expensive to mill but cheap for laser. I'm adding .030" for each bend on 12Ga, thinner stuff I just go from the inside of each bend. We don't get a lot of call for thick, bent pieces, usually we weld thick stuff. Anyone have wisdom on what to add for various thicknesses of bent sheet? This customer specified all 7Ga, but told me to go with whatever would work easiest. These are brackets holding PCs on stationary machines, 12Ga will save us trouble and him money.