How To Start A Sheet Metal Part In Solidworks 2015

Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends.

How to start a sheet metal part in solidworks 2015. You can also create a bounding box for any cut list item in a cut list independent of the type of solid or sheet metal bodies in the cut list item. The simbot solidworks series is a set of. Select the fixed face on the model. When it comes to creating a sheet metal part in solidworks you have two choices for the first step.

The fixed face remains in place when the part is flattened. Web help content version. 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. Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part.

Converting to sheet metal or building up from a base. Open the part to be split. First you do a sketch and then define the sheet metal options like thickness and default bend radius. Create a sketch to be used to split the part.

In the propertymanager under bend parameters. 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. Solidworks 2015 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead. The bounding box is represented by a sketch when you flatten the sheet metal part and is located in the featuremanager design tree under flat pattern.

The name of the face is displayed in the fixed face or edge box. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components. Example of bounding box sketch in a flat pattern. Select split features toolbar.