Solidworks Sheet Metal Insert Into New Part Flatten

Click sheetmetal insert bends click flat face as reference when it flatten.

Solidworks sheet metal insert into new part flatten. Convert to sheet metal with split line to control one flange. But the sheet metal blanks will be laser water jetted by a vendor. Create a drawing from a solidworks sheet metal part document. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten.

Right click on the new drawing view and pick properties. When flat pattern1 is suppressed all features that you add to the part automatically appear before this feature in the featuremanager design tree. Sheet metal features and parts are kind of their own thing. It was converted to sheet metal.

New features in folded part. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. A flat pattern feature that you can unsuppress to view your flat pattern at any time. The problem is what you ve created isn t actually considered a sheet metal part yet by solidworks.

Designers are not limited to only one sheet metal part. All of this while keeping the integrity of the flat patte. If however a body is insert into new part the functionality of flattening the part is lost. This has created 3 new features in your feature design tree.

A sheet metal folder which contains your sheet metal parameters. Creating a multi body sheet metal part the bodies can be flatten. New features in flattened part. I placed an insert bends feature after plane5 this converts it to a sheet metal type of part and a flatten feature at the end and that gets you close to where you want to go i think.

When done click on the green checkmark ok to accept. Here is the saved sheet metal body. A convert solid folder which contains the bends used for this part. To understand this better let s go through the steps of what is suppose to happen when you create a new solidworks sheet metal flattened view.

The sheet metal bodies are saved out to separate files. Insert the flat pattern view. Next holes were filled. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready.

Ability to carry forward the sheet metal body part as it is when user uses insert into new part. Here is a frame weldment with sheet metal bodies. As shown in figure 4 the checkbox for keep body has been enabled in order to reuse the same body in case the bottom and back side need to be utilized for a multibody sheet metal design. You flatten the entire sheet metal part by unsuppressing flat pattern1 to add features to the flattened sheet metal part you must first unsuppress flat pattern1.