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Sheet Metal Resources

If you're new to sheet metal fabrication, these resources provide comprehensive guides to design fundamentals, manufacturing processes, and best practices:

Sheet Metal Design Guide | Geomiq - A practical introduction to sheet metal.

Technical Background

Algorithm Sources

For those interested in the computational geometry and algorithms behind sheet metal recognition and unfolding, the following resources provide in-depth technical explanations:

Overall Approach
On Sheet Metal Recognition and Unfolding (Part 1) - Explores the fundamental concepts and methodology for recognizing sheet metal features in 3D geometry and computing flat patterns.

Bend Direction Algorithm
Determining Bending Angles for a BREP - Discussion on computational methods for calculating bend angles from boundary representation (BREP) solid models.

Attributed Adjacency Graph
Analysis Situs: Attributed Adjacency Graph - Technical documentation on using attributed adjacency graphs for topological analysis of CAD models, a key data structure for sheet metal feature recognition.