Solidworks Simple Sheet Metal Part

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

Solidworks simple sheet metal part. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready. Side flange profile sketches do not need the cross section drawn the lines will be thickened and all the sharp edges will be turn into bends. The sheet metal tool allows you to quickly create sheet metal part designs using a simple design process all helping to save time and development costs. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

Sheetmetal features are used so that the part can be flattened out to create a flat pattern. 12 gauge steel is used for this model. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Simple sheet metal part 3.

Simple sheet metal part 9. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten. If you cannot find the sheetmetal tool in you main tool menu you can right click on main menu tab and check sheetmetal option. Under sheet metal parameters.

We will focus on the flange method where a sheet metal part is created in the formed state using specialized sheet metal features. You know the basic try model this bracket. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. The sheetmetal featue in solidworks determines the thickness and bend radius.

We can use these features to create sheet metal designs with several different methods. Sheetmetal features are used so that the part can be flattened out to create a flat pattern. Solidworks 3d allows you to quickly create sheet metal part designs using a simple design process saving you time and development costs thanks to specific sheet metal features.