Convert Curved Surface To Sheet Metal Solidworks

This will make some of the more complex geometries easier to create and control.

Convert curved surface to sheet metal solidworks. Create the sheet metal part as a solid body in solidworks. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Once you have a solid body in the shape that you want there are a couple of ways to convert it into sheet metal. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Convert to sheet metal. Under sheet metal parameters. 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.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. 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 is your sheet metal box. 3 when all edges have been added to the two groups hit the green check. Sheet metal convert and flat pattern suppressed. The method you choose will depend on the state of the solid body and.

The way i have gone about this is simply modeling internal external faces using surfaces. 2 solidworks will pick the rip edges for you by process of elimination. 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. I have recently got into learning surfacing in solidworks 2012 and i have been working on some sheet metal components.

Stop putting a small flat section on your part just to get it to convert to sheet metal. I have been using surfaces with the aim of later converting them to sheet metal. Notice the three features added. The software automatically selects the edges on which rips are applied.

However when i go to convert sheet metal i have no luck.