Make Sheet Metal Part Solidworks

Drawings of sheet metal parts.

Make sheet metal part solidworks.

Solidworks sheet metal tutorial step 1. Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch. Now you have your basic profile in sheet metal form. You do not have to dimension the part.

Create a sketch as shown. Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends.

Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design. In the propertymanager under bend parameters. In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table. To bend the sheet metal part sketch.

A new part opens. Create a base flange by clicking base flange tab or insert sheet metal base flange. Select use gauge table. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in.

To create a sheet metal part from the flattened state. Select the fixed face on the model. To create an opposite hand version of a sheet metal part. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

In a sheet metal part select a plane or planar surface and click insert mirror part. The fixed face remains in place. Make sure your sketch is fully defined and that straight entities are tangent to arcs. You can use mirror part to create a part that is an opposite hand version an existing sheet metal part.

The sheet metal features appear. Create the solid part. Adding walls to sheet metal parts. Click on the sheet.

Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part. How to model complex sheet metal parts in solidworks step 1. Sketch out your profile. First create a new part.

Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal. Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal. In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal.