Convert To Sheet Metal Solidworks 2016

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.

Convert to sheet metal solidworks 2016. Solidworks 2016 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. 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. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Create new bodies in an existing sheet metal part using base flange convert to sheet metal insert bends and lofted bend commands. Under sheet metal parameters. Click convert to sheet metal 3. 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.

Please subscribe our channel for more videos and project. 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. The software automatically selects the edges on which rips are applied. How to convert 3d part into sheet metal in solidworks with the help of convert to sheet metal tools.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. 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. Split a single sheet metal part into multiple bodies.