Convert To Sheet Metal Solidworks 2016

This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder.

Convert to sheet metal solidworks 2016.

Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet. How to convert 3d part into sheet metal in solidworks with the help of convert to sheet metal tools. Solidworks 2016 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead. In the convert to sheet metal propertymanager you specify the fixed face and thickness of the sheet metal part the default bend radius and the edges or fillet faces on which to create bends.

Create new bodies in an existing sheet metal part using base flange convert to sheet metal insert bends and lofted bend commands. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Here we have a solid body that i would like to convert into a sheet metal box then get the flat pattern to make it.

On this snippet from the march 2016 episode of straight from support solidworks applications engineer heather dawe explains the differences between the convert to sheet metal and insert. Under sheet metal parameters. If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal. If an edge already has a fillet applied the radius of the fillet is used as the bend radius for the new sheet metal part.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Please subscribe our channel for more videos and project. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Split a single sheet metal part into multiple bodies.