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.

Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends. When it comes to creating a sheet metal part in solidworks you have two choices for the first step. Solidworks 2015 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead. Select the fixed face on the model.

You can also create a bounding box for any cut list item in a cut list independent of the type of solid or sheet metal bodies in the cut list item. Select split features toolbar. The simbot solidworks series is a set of. Converting to sheet metal or building up from a base.

Example of bounding box sketch in a flat pattern. Web help content version. Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part. 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 bounding box is represented by a sketch when you flatten the sheet metal part and is located in the featuremanager design tree under flat pattern. 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. The fixed face remains in place when the part is flattened. To split a sheet metal part using the split command.

Open the part to be split. Create a sketch to be used to split the part. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components. Method 1 base flange.