Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
How to wrap sheet metal in solidworks.
To do this click on the beach ball from the task pane on the right.
Using forming tools with sheet metal.
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Solidworks 3d allows you to quickly create sheet metal part designs using a simple design process saving you time and development costs thanks to specific sheet metal features.
The steps are as follows.
Drag a stock decal from the appearance task pane to a face.
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From here simply drag it onto a face.
Wrapping a decal on sheet metal.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
Then browse to the decals folder.
Placing a decal on a sheet metal part is similar to any type of part file.
Click wrap features toolbar or insert features wrap.
Multibody sheet metal parts.
There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.
In the graphics area select the solidworks sketch.
We can use these features to create sheet metal designs with several different methods.
We will focus on the flange method where a sheet metal part is created in the formed state using specialized sheet metal features.
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.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.