How To Make A Sheet Metal Box In Solidworks

Drawing a sheet metal box in solidworks 2010.

How to make a sheet metal box in solidworks. Now if you make the box by creating an extruded rectangle add fillets to all of the edges and corners and then shell the thing outward you can make that into a sheetmetal and add louvers and ports and stuff like that. To create a sheet metal part with sharp bends. To add the sides to the box the edge flange tool was used. The fixed face remains in.

In the propertymanager under bend parameters. Select the fixed face on the model. When designing a sheet metal part as an individual part the first step is to create the base flange. Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part.

Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends. This was done by creating a sketch of the top view of the base of the part and setting the material thickness. We will learn base flange edge flange corner hemming vent unfold fold extruded cut mirror simple hole flatten the parts how to save as 2d drawing f. You might also like.

Solidworks bend surfaces have to be either conical or cylindrical. What you can t do is unfold it.