Convert Body To Sheet Metal Solidworks

Using this tool is an all in one approach to transforming a solid body into sheet metal.

Convert body to sheet metal solidworks. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet. The software automatically selects the edges on which rips are applied. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. This approach will work for any solid body you have including imported bodies made in other systems.

For more information about solid. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Under sheet metal parameters. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.

This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal. Click convert to sheet metal 3. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

The sheet metal tool in solidworks is located in the sheet metal toolbar and drop down menu. 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. 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.