Designing Sheet Metal Parts Solidworks

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Designing sheet metal parts solidworks.

Combining the different sheet metal design methods. The real power of solidworks comes when you have to design bent sheet metal a task which looks simple but really isn t. However in some circumstances when the design requires certain types of geometry you can use non sheet metal feature tools then insert bends or convert the part to sheet metal. Relief cuts help parts avoid overhangs and tearing at.

Adding walls to sheet metal parts. That means you need a contour of the sheet metal to be cut known as a flat pattern. You can create a sheet metal part by converting a solid or surface body using the convert to sheet metal tool. As a standard feature solidworks make this pattern for you based it on your previously designed model.

Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Adding walls to sheet metal parts. Sheet metal parts may have sharp corners but designing a fillet of the material s thickness will make parts more cost effective. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends.

Drawings of sheet metal parts. Create the solid part. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. The sheet metal specific features make it easier and faster to create a sheet metal part than designing a part then converting it to sheet metal.

There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. Solidworks design is a progressive video based training course that shows you how to make bulletproof sheet metal parts while streamlining the process. Solidworks includes sheet metal specific features so you can create a part as sheet metal without having to convert it to sheet metal.

You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends. Drawings of sheet metal parts. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. Designing a part with sheet metal specific features uses fewer features and editing tools and eliminates the use of the rollback bar.

Bend radius k factor bend deduction gauge thickness and more. Select use gauge table. First review the sheet metal tools in solidworks and the properties that make sheet metal unique. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part.

Each step of the way to learn key features of the sheet metal environment that allow you to quickly and accurately create sheet metal. In select table select a gauge table to use or click browse and browse to a gauge table. Parts that are originally created as sheet metal have different features than parts that are created and then converted to sheet metal. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.