Extruded Sheet Metal In Solidworks

A thin feature base can be used as a basis for a sheet metal part.

Extruded sheet metal in solidworks.

Use the thin feature options to control the extrude thickness not the depth. Extruding thin features thin feature is required when using an open contour sketch. Select a face as the fixed face. Sketches a circle on the selected face.

Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design. First create a new part. Select use gauge table. At this stage you can now shape you profile using the extruded cut feature.

In the graphics area. Solidworks 2013 api changes. Open the immediate window. Go to sheet metal and click insert bends from the sheet metal tab click on the bottom face for the sheet metal make an edge flange using solidworks.

Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch. Verify that the sheet metal part to open exists. Click on the sheet metal. When sketching your cut use the mirror entities feature through the origin this will ensure you finish with a symmetrical part because the origin is in the.

Solidworks sheet metal tutorial. In an existing sheet metal part click unfold or insert sheet metal unfold. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal.

The unfold propertymanager appears. Russell everard 1 aug 2017 06 30 pm. Creates cut extrude2 which is an optimized normal cut extrude. One of the parts is bent from 1 inch plate which makes me want to model it as sheet metal.

In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table. Go to sheet metal and click edge flange from the sheet metal tab. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. Create the solid part.