Click base flange tab or insert sheet metal base flange.
Make sheet metal cylinder solidworks.
Just add a new sketch on one of the flat end faces of the cylinder.
Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal.
Enter a default inside radius for the bends.
Add the cuts fold the part and use the same sketch to cut the extrusion off.
Enter the material thickness you want.
Click convert to sheet metal.
Every year solidworks makes several enhancements to its software.
Flatten it by converting it using the insert bends command instead.
Select the face and convert entities then extrude 0 01 any number really just less than the width of the seam.
Click on the sheet.
To create a sheet metal part with cylindrical faces.
Stop putting a small flat section on your part just to get it to convert to sheet metal.
You can design a sheet metal part on its own without any references to the parts it will enclose you can design the part in the context of an assembly that contains the enclosed components or you can design the part within another part document in a multibody environment.
If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal.
Consider a 3 foot diameter metal cylinder and how we could create this and create a flat patten using the sheet metal tools found in solidworks standard.
As you would expect there are several ways to accomplish this in solidworks.
Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch.
Then select the fixed face of that extrusion to do your unfold.
First create a new part.
Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet.
There are some tips and tricks included.
Make sure to grab a note pad and get ready for some quick modeling.
Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design.
The arc can also be tangent to a line.
Solidworks sheet metal tutorial step 1.
Today we are going to look at creating a slot in a sheet metal cylinder.
The base flange propertymanager appears.
Single open contours can be used for extrudes revolves sections paths.
