How To Add In Sheet Metal Solidworks

There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

How to add in sheet metal solidworks.

Using this tool is an all in one approach to transforming a solid body into sheet metal. This is available only in sheet metal parts with flatten bends1 and process bends1 features. You can add closed corners between sheet metal flanges. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.

This approach will work for any solid body you have including imported bodies made in other systems. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in. We will focus on the flange method where a sheet metal part is created in the formed state using specialized sheet metal features.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components. 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. Flattening sheet metal bends.

You can roll back all bends from a sheet metal part in which bends have been inserted so that you can make additions such as adding a wall. Click front plane and click on sketch. Under sheet metal parameters. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

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. You might also like. In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten. We can use these features to create sheet metal designs with several different methods.

The sheet metal tool in solidworks is located in the sheet metal toolbar and drop down menu.