Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawings

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Solidworks sheet metal drawings. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. 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. Multibody sheet metal parts. A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. From the view palette drag the flat pattern. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing.

Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Bends are added wherever appropriate and sheet metal specific features are added to the feature manager design tree. Right click bend lines and click show. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for.

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. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n. Using forming tools with sheet metal. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

In this tutorial video i will show you how to sketch a box in solidworks with the help of sketch and sheet metal tools. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. To create a drawing of a flat pattern. Using sheet metal bend parameters.

The base flange feature is created from a sketch. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. When you add a base flange feature to a solidworks part the part is marked as a sheet metal part. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

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