Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawings

To create a drawing of a flat pattern.

Solidworks sheet metal drawings.

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. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. Drawings of sheet metal parts. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. Click view hide show sketches. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. From the view palette drag the flat pattern.

Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. 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. You might also like.

With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for.

Using forming tools with sheet metal. Multibody sheet metal parts. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs. Select a format or click ok to use the default format.

In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n. 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. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. Right click bend lines and click show.

Please subscribe our channel for more. Bends are added wherever appropriate and sheet metal specific features are added to the feature manager design tree.