Make Sheet Metal Part Solidworks

To create a sheet metal part with sharp bends.

Make sheet metal part solidworks.

The sheet metal features appear. Select use gauge table. Solidworks sheet metal tutorial step 1. Sketch out your profile.

Click front plane and click on sketch. You do not have to dimension the part. In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

Now you have your basic profile in sheet metal form. Create the solid part. Create a sketch as shown. Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends.

Open a new part. First create a new part. Create a base flange by clicking base flange tab or insert sheet metal base flange. A new part opens.

To create a sheet metal part from the flattened state. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch. Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part.

Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal. In the propertymanager under bend parameters. Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part.

To create an opposite hand version of a sheet metal part. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends. You can use mirror part to create a part that is an opposite hand version an existing sheet metal part. Make sure your sketch is fully defined and that straight entities are tangent to arcs.

How to model complex sheet metal parts in solidworks step 1. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in. In a sheet metal part select a plane or planar surface and click insert mirror part. The fixed face remains in place.

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