Make Sheet Metal Part Solidworks

Select use gauge table.

Make sheet metal part solidworks.

Create a base flange by clicking base flange tab or insert sheet metal base flange. Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends. Solidworks sheet metal tutorial step 1. You do not have to dimension the part.

To bend the sheet metal part sketch. In the propertymanager under bend parameters. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in. Click front plane and click on sketch.

Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design. First create a new part. To create an opposite hand version of a sheet metal part. Create a sketch as shown.

Select the fixed face on the model. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends. Drawings of sheet metal parts. Sketch out your profile.

In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten. Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch. You can use mirror part to create a part that is an opposite hand version an existing sheet metal part. To create a sheet metal part with sharp bends.

Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. Adding walls to sheet metal parts. A new part opens. The fixed face remains in place.

To create a sheet metal part from the flattened state. Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal.

Click on the sheet. Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal. Make sure your sketch is fully defined and that straight entities are tangent to arcs. Open a new part.

In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table. The sheet metal features appear. Now you have your basic profile in sheet metal form. In a sheet metal part select a plane or planar surface and click insert mirror part.