How To Start A Sheet Metal Part In Solidworks 2015

The name of the face is displayed in the fixed face or edge box.

How to start a sheet metal part in solidworks 2015.

Create a sketch to be used to split the part. The sheet metal specific features make it easier and faster to create a sheet metal part than designing a part then converting it to sheet metal. Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends. 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.

To split a sheet metal part using the split command. The entire part is mirrored as well as the sheet metal bends. Solidworks includes sheet metal specific features so you can create a part as sheet metal without having to convert it to sheet metal. In this tutorial video we will learn how to create a bracket with the help of sheet metal commands like base flange sketched bend and sheet metal gusset.

You might also like. In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane use select other from the shortcut menu if necessary. This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal. Web help content version.

Select split features toolbar. Open the part to be split. Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part. 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. Under options click merge solids. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components. 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.

The fixed face remains in place when the part is flattened. For more information about solid. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. If you clear merge solids a second body that is the mirror of the original is created in the part.

In the propertymanager under bend parameters. How to start a sheet metal part in solidworks let s connect.