Greetings from Central Europe

[bdidier]

Dear All Metal Shaping members,

I am junior technical drafter in a construction company.
We mostly manufacture aluminium and steel constructions for buildings and facades.
The company I work for, recently bought sheet metal cutting bending machines. For a few of us, they look like some kind sacred objects, as up until now we ordered all flat/bend sheets from external suppliers. I work from Austria.

I am curious and looking forward to read and learn more bout sheet metal shaping from this knowledgeable community.
Maybe one day, I get to work in the production, on those "sacred" CNC/bending machines. I have started reading online some basics of sheet metal bending (Bend allowance calculation, k-factor). But still it is always useful when I can read about experiences of other users. And maybe get an answer to sheet-metal question, I would like to ask.

I graduated from 5 years technical high-school, a year ago.

In my free time, I enjoy swimming, water colour painting, and from time to time carpentry.

Thank you very much for the acceptance and for membership approval.

Kind regards,
Didier Bernard