Convert Bends Sheet Metal Solidworks

Measure the thickness of the imported solid with the measure tools.

Convert bends sheet metal solidworks.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. You might also like. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet 4.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Visit our learning library which features all of our training courses and tutorials at http. 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. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

The part is already bent but it s a dummy solid so no need to insert bends. Click convert to sheet metal 3. Enter a default inside radius for the bends. Under sheet metal parameters.

The combination of these two tools make up the core functionality of the convert to sheet metal tool and focus on the edge connections between faces in the solid body. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Want all of our free solidworks sheet metal training videos. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal. M measure the bend radius of the imported solid with the measure tools. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.