Make Sheet Metal Part Solidworks

The sheet metal features appear.

Make sheet metal part solidworks.

Make sure your sketch is fully defined and that straight entities are tangent to arcs. Select the fixed face on the model. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends. To create an opposite hand version of a sheet metal part.

In a sheet metal part select a plane or planar surface and click insert mirror part. Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch. Open a new part. The fixed face remains in place.

To create a sheet metal part from the flattened state. To bend the sheet metal part sketch. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. Click on the sheet.

Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends. Now you have your basic profile in sheet metal form. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten.

A new part opens. Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design. Sketch out your profile. Create the solid part.

Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in. Create a sketch as shown. Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal.

You do not have to dimension the part. First create a new part. Create a base flange by clicking base flange tab or insert sheet metal base flange. You can use mirror part to create a part that is an opposite hand version an existing sheet metal part.

Solidworks sheet metal tutorial step 1. Drawings of sheet metal parts. How to model complex sheet metal parts in solidworks step 1. Adding walls to sheet metal parts.

In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table. Select use gauge table. In the propertymanager under bend parameters. To create a sheet metal part with sharp bends.