Convert To Sheet Metal Solidworks 2016

If an edge already has a fillet applied the radius of the fillet is used as the bend radius for the new sheet metal part.

Convert to sheet metal solidworks 2016.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Under sheet metal parameters. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Here we have a solid body that i would like to convert into a sheet metal box then get the flat pattern to make it. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal. Please subscribe our channel for more videos and project.

Click convert to sheet metal 3. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet. The software automatically selects the edges on which rips are applied. Solidworks 2016 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead.

On this snippet from the march 2016 episode of straight from support solidworks applications engineer heather dawe explains the differences between the convert to sheet metal and insert. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Split a single sheet metal part into multiple bodies.