Drawing Sheet Metal Parts In Solidworks

Adding walls to sheet metal parts.

Drawing sheet metal parts in solidworks.

Each body has its own sheet metal and material definition flat pattern and custom properties. You might also like. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. From the view palette drag the flat pattern. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. Multibody sheet metal parts can consist of multiple sheet metal bodies or a combination of sheet metal and other bodies such as weldment bodies.

Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n. Select a format or click ok to use the default format.

Drawings of sheet metal parts. Click view hide show sketches. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends.

Multibody sheet metal parts. 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.