How To Start A Sheet Metal Part In Solidworks 2015

This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal.

How to start a sheet metal part in solidworks 2015.

The entire part is mirrored as well as the sheet metal bends. Select the fixed face on the model. If you clear merge solids a second body that is the mirror of the original is created in the part. In the propertymanager under bend parameters.

Solidworks includes sheet metal specific features so you can create a part as sheet metal without having to convert it to sheet metal. The sheet metal specific features make it easier and faster to create a sheet metal part than designing a part then converting it to sheet metal. Select split features toolbar. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

Create a sketch to be used to split the part. For more information about solid. Open the part to be split. The fixed face remains in place when the part is flattened.

In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane use select other from the shortcut menu if necessary. In this tutorial video we will learn how to create a bracket with the help of sheet metal commands like base flange sketched bend and sheet metal gusset. Episode 4 1 creating a sheet metal part this video demonstrates how to create a basic sheetmetal part and add flanges to it using the edge flange tool. How to start a sheet metal part in solidworks let s connect.

Solidworks 2015 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead. The simbot solidworks series is a set of. Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends. Under options click merge solids.

Web help content version. 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. 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.

Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part. To split a sheet metal part using the split command.