Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawings

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.

Solidworks sheet metal drawings.

Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Right click bend lines and click show. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing.

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

In this tutorial video i will show you how to sketch a box in solidworks with the help of sketch and sheet metal tools. A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part. To create a drawing of a flat pattern. Please subscribe our channel for more.

Click view hide show sketches. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. Multibody sheet metal parts. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

From the view palette drag the flat pattern. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. 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. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

The base flange feature is created from a sketch. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. Using sheet metal bend parameters. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n.

This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs.