Extruded Sheet Metal In Solidworks

First create a new part.

Extruded sheet metal in solidworks.

Verify that the sheet metal part to open exists. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. When sketching your cut use the mirror entities feature through the origin this will ensure you finish with a symmetrical part because the origin is in the. Create the solid part.

Solidworks 2013 api changes. One of the parts is bent from 1 inch plate which makes me want to model it as sheet metal. Russell everard 1 aug 2017 06 30 pm. Opens the sheet metal part.

Select a face as the fixed face. Use the thin feature options to control the extrude thickness not the depth. Open the immediate window. Select use gauge table.

Sketches a circle on the selected face. How to model complex sheet metal parts in solidworks. Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal.

In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table. Click on the sheet metal. Go to sheet metal and click edge flange from the sheet metal tab. Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal.

In the graphics area. Solidworks sheet metal tutorial. Question asked by brent racine on jul 15 2010 latest reply on jul 15. Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch.

Creates cut extrude2 which is an optimized normal cut extrude. A thin feature base can be used as a basis for a sheet metal part. Extruding thin features thin feature is required when using an open contour sketch. The unfold propertymanager appears.