Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawings

You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing.

Solidworks sheet metal drawings.

A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part. 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. Drawings of 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.

You might also like. To create a drawing of a flat pattern. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table.

To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. Multibody sheet metal parts. Bends are added wherever appropriate and sheet metal specific features are added to the feature manager design tree.

Using forming tools with sheet metal. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. When you add a base flange feature to a solidworks part the part is marked as a sheet metal part. 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.

Right click bend lines and click show. Using sheet metal bend parameters. Click view hide show sketches. From the view palette drag the flat pattern.

With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Please subscribe our channel for more. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet.

This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.