Drawing Sheet Metal Solidworks

Creating sheet metal parts with cylindrical faces.

Drawing sheet metal solidworks.

You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet. Adding walls to 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.

The lines should start coincident with the edge and be have an auto tangent relation to the circle. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. To open this dialog box. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. Solidworks welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation accuracy and thoroughness of the documentation. Creating drawings of flat patterns.

Drawings of sheet metal parts. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. Introduction to solidworks sheet metal for technology page 10 shaping of holder create a sketch on the top face of the base flange as shown the circle should have its centre coincident with the existing hole and tangential to the edge. Please subscribe our channel for mo.

To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. You might also like. Click view hide show sketches.

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. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal.