Convert Bends Sheet Metal Solidworks

Enter the material thickness you want 5.

Convert bends sheet metal solidworks.

Under sheet metal parameters. If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. M converting to sheet metal should get rid of the beveled edges once you hand pick the two bend faces.

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Want all of our free solidworks sheet metal training videos. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet 4. Enter a default inside radius for the bends.

The combination of these two tools make up the core functionality of the convert to sheet metal tool and focus on the edge connections between faces in the solid body. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. The part is already bent but it s a dummy solid so no need to insert bends.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Measure the thickness of the imported solid with the measure tools. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. You might also like.

Inserting rips and bends to convert to sheet metal for a more discrete approach to making sheet metal from solid bodies you can use the rip and insert bends tools. 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. Click convert to sheet metal 3.