Flux Reference Manual

  • Welcome to Flux
  • Introduction
    • Installing the software
    • The user interface
    • Part workflow
  • CAD
    • 2-D Import
      • 2-D Cleanup
    • 3-D Import
      • Import 3D Model
      • Import assembly
      • Form detection
      • Component detection
    • Modifying the geometry
    • Attachments
  • Laser CAM
    • Part workflow
      • Editing panels
        • Laser cut
          • Approach
          • Withdrawal
          • Microjoint
          • Advanced
        • Contour
        • Scrap cut
        • Part
        • Corner treatment
      • Quick-Nest
    • Job workflow
      • Job panel
        • Sheets tab
        • Parts tab
        • Layouts tab
        • Summary tab
      • Edit layout
        • Nesting modes
        • Placement panel
        • Sequencing
        • Slice sheet
    • Bevel cut
      • Open contours
      • Variable bevel
      • Miscellaneous
    • Advanced
      • Finishing rules
      • Edit LTT
      • FlyLine
      • TwinLine
        • Strategy
        • Microjoints
        • Further settings
      • DetectLine
  • Bend CAM
    • Create bend data
    • Bend navigator
    • Edit bend data
      • Edit a bend
      • Edit a tool mount
      • Edit a bend setup
      • Edit the back-gauges
      • Edit angle measurement
      • Bends spreadsheet
      • Changing the sequence
      • Adding setups and stations
    • Advanced
      • Angle measurement
      • Batch process
      • Recompute solution
      • Tonnage check
    • Bending Aids
  • BendMaster CAM
    • Bend navigator
    • Part pickup
      • Pickup from pallet
      • Pickup from dispenser
    • Robotic bending
      • Insertion
      • Bending
      • Extraction
    • Regripping
      • Regrip panel
      • Add regrip
      • Edit regrip
      • Regrip with jaw
      • RG-Stations panel
    • Part deposit
      • Deposit panel
      • Repeat and sequence
      • Add separator sheets
      • Lock part-rest
      • Deposit pattern types
    • Advanced
      • Waypoints
      • Cell configuration
      • Custom Cell Components
      • Gripper database
        • Create a gripper
        • Import gripper from DXF
        • Import Suction Cup
  • FlexCell CAM
    • Bend navigator
    • Part pickup
      • Pickup from pallet
      • Centering table
    • Robotic bending
      • Insertion
      • Bending
      • Extraction
      • Advanced
    • Regripping
      • Regrip panel
      • Add/Remove regrip
      • Gripper Panel
      • RG-Stations panel
    • Part deposit
      • Deposit panel
      • Deposit Tabs
    • Advanced
      • Waypoints
      • Cell configuration
      • Gripper database
        • Create a gripper
        • Import gripper from DXF
    • Troubleshooting
  • Fold CAM
    • Create fold data
    • The Fold view
    • Editing Fold data
      • Edit a bend
      • Edit a side/section
      • Change the sequence
      • Edit the blank-holders
      • Edit the gauging
      • Edit the blades
      • Edit the loading
      • Edit the unloading
    • Tool inventory
    • Advanced
      • Custom air-gap tables
      • Manual bend completion
      • Required flange length
  • Settings
    • Drawing
      • Layers
      • Dimensions
      • View
    • Bend CAM
      • Machine defaults
      • Bend outputs
      • Bend view
      • Bend cell
    • Cut CAM
      • Layout
        • Nest settings
        • Sheet
        • Sheet handling
        • Skeleton cuts
        • Work support
      • Laser CAM
        • Sequence
      • Cut outputs
      • Cut view
    • Panel bending
      • Defaults
      • ZBW carriers
      • Outputs
    • Reports
      • Item defaults
    • Import/Export
    • Environment
  • Database
    • Materials
    • Machines
    • Bend tools
    • Bend deductions
    • Bend grippers
    • Forms and Components
  • Reports
    • Report designer
    • Fields, pictures and tables
    • Bands (sub-reports)
    • Labels, bitmaps and shapes
  • Appendix
    • Supported 3D formats
    • Separator sheet DXF
    • Bend tool DXF
    • The Adapt Geometry feature
Fold CAM
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Editing Fold data
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Edit a side/section

Edit a side/section

Edit Side

There are a few settings and operations connected to an entire bending side (as opposed to a single bend operation). These are accessed by opening the Side Panel:

  • Open a Bend panel (by clicking twice on a number in the Fold Navigator). Then click on the Side button to open the Side panel for the side that contains that bend.

  • Ctrl+Click on a number in the fold navigator to open the side panel for that side.

The side panel looks like the one shown alongside (the actual set of options available in the Edit Sequence popup may be different, depending on the part).

  • Click the Flip Side button to flip the entire side upside down. This will cause the blades, blank-holders and part-handling to be recomputed immediately. On an automatic machine, this is replaced by the Flip Part button[1], since the machine cannot flip just one side over.

  • Click the Edit Sequence button to bring up a sub-menu that shows the possible sequence shuffles that you could do with this side. In the picture above, we are working with a part that has a side sequence like C1 C2 L1 L2 and we have selected the side L1. The possible sequence choices are explained below:

  • << L1+L2 earlier shifts both L1 and L2 to happen before C1 and C2. Thus, the new sequence would be L1 L2 C1 C2.

  • << L1 earlier shifts L1 one step earlier, so the new sequence would be C1 L1 C2 L2. While this may not be so common, it could be useful in some situations.

  • L1 later >> shifts the side L2 later, leading to a sequence that would be C1 C2 L2 L1 (of course, the sides are immediately renamed after this, so the sequence still reads C1 C2 L1 L2 when code is generated).

The set of choices available in this menu depends on the current sequence, and on which side you are selecting to re-order.

  • Click on the Prev or Next buttons to navigate between the different sides in this part.

  • Click on the Bends button to navigate down from the sides into the set of bends for this side (this is the converse of the Side button in the Bend panel that lets you navigate up from a bend to the side that contains the bend).


1. This is of much more limited utility than the Flip Side button for a manual machine, and exists only to handle some rare situations.
Edit a bend Change the sequence

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