{"id":4763,"date":"2013-11-23T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2013-11-20T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T14:13:23","slug":"whats-so-different-between-bend-tables-and-gage-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s so different between Bend Tables and Gage Tables?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SolidNotes blog has a <a title=\"Gauge or Gage tables versus Bend Tables\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/graphics_systems_solidnot\/2013\/11\/bend-tables-gauge-tables-whats-the-difference.html\"><strong>very good article about the differences between Bend Tables and Gage Tables in SolidWorks<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Bend tables were the original table used by SolidWorks to pull Bend Deduction, Bend Allowance, or K-Factor values for use in calculating the flat pattern. Before the introduction of gauge tables, you would need a separate table for each thickness of material. Since gauge tables were introduced, data for multiple thicknesses of one material can be used in a single table; this makes life much easier!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolidNotes blog has a very good article about the differences between Bend Tables and Gage Tables in SolidWorks. \u00a0Bend tables were the original table used by SolidWorks to pull Bend Deduction, Bend Allowance, or K-Factor values for use in calculating the flat pattern. Before the introduction of gauge tables, you would need a separate table &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=4763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s so different between Bend Tables and Gage Tables?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[1507,1505,1506,467,1508],"series":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part","category-tipstricks","tag-bend","tag-gage","tag-gauge","tag-sheet-metal","tag-tables"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s so different between Bend Tables and Gage Tables? - SolidWorks Legion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=4763\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s so different between Bend Tables and Gage Tables? - SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SolidNotes blog has a very good article about the differences between Bend Tables and Gage Tables in SolidWorks. \u00a0Bend tables were the original table used by SolidWorks to pull Bend Deduction, Bend Allowance, or K-Factor values for use in calculating the flat pattern. 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