Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawings

When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

Solidworks sheet metal drawings.

When you add a base flange feature to a solidworks part the part is marked as a sheet metal part. A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part. Forming tools are parts that act as dies that bend stretch or otherwise form sheet metal to create form features such as louvers lances flanges and ribs. Bends are added wherever appropriate and sheet metal specific features are added to the feature manager design tree.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. In this tutorial video i will show you how to sketch a box in solidworks with the help of sketch and sheet metal tools. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n.

The base flange feature is created from a sketch. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. Right click bend lines and click show. 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.

With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. To create a drawing of a flat pattern.

Using sheet metal bend parameters. Using forming tools with sheet metal. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for.

Multibody sheet metal parts. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. Please subscribe our channel for more. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

Click view hide show sketches. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing.