Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawings

In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n.

Solidworks sheet metal drawings.

To create a drawing of a flat pattern. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. Click view hide show sketches. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

Drawings of sheet metal parts. Bends are added wherever appropriate and sheet metal specific features are added to the feature manager design tree. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. Multibody sheet metal parts.

In this tutorial video i will show you how to sketch a box in solidworks with the help of sketch and sheet metal tools. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part.

To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. 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. Using forming tools with sheet metal. You might also like.

Using sheet metal bend parameters. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs. From the view palette drag the flat pattern.

Right click bend lines and click show. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. When you add a base flange feature to a solidworks part the part is marked as a sheet metal part. Please subscribe our channel for more.

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. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for.