Solidworks Sheet Metal Curved Bend

Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready.

Solidworks sheet metal curved bend. A quick tour and introduction using the solidworks sheet metal sketch bend feature. For a more discrete approach to making sheet metal from solid bodies you can use the rip and insert bends tools. If you cannot find the sheetmetal tool in you main tool menu you can right click on main menu tab and check sheetmetal option. This solidworks tutorial is show you how to bend a part with sketched bend in sheet metal features check it out.

Solidworks how to create a simple sheet metal part in solidworks. Solidworks sheet metal as well as any other cad sheet metal applicaiton is actually pretty simple and straight forward. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. There are planar portions and bent portions in a sheet metal part and for the bent portions we apply simple math in order to deteremine the developed length.

Click a bend position of bend centerline material inside material outside or bend outside. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

In the graphics area select a face that does not move as a result of the bend for fixed face. Look at part tree. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten.

Click sketched bend on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal sketched bend. Under bend edges select the model edges that will form bends.