How To Make A Sheet Metal Drawing In Solidworks

Select a format or click ok to use the default format.

How to make a sheet metal drawing in solidworks.

From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. Open a new part. You do not have to dimension the part.

Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. You might also like. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. Create a sketch as shown.

Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces. To create a sheet metal part from the flattened state. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet.

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. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. Alright so the last thing we want to do is save out our sheet format. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. To do that we ll just use a file save sheet format and this will save it in the type slddrt. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. So let me just save that on my desktop.