The metal working equipment can cut, bend, and roll thin sheet metal. In the Maker Lab we have a Woodward Fab throatless rotary shear (pictured), box and pan brake, and slip roll.

If you want to bend metal to make shapes, you might use equipment like a brake. But if you don’t have one, no worries. You can still do a lot with common tools ... 360’s sheet metal workflow.

The first step in fabricating a sheet metal component is cutting to size. Shearing machines and shearing machinery perform this function. Shearing machines are multipurpose devices used in the cutting ...

While the tools and technology in the sheet metal trade continue to evolve, basic principles that are fundamental to working with sheet metal remain. Sheet Metal presents basic metalworking principles ...