Drawing Sheet Metal Solidworks

Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet.

Drawing sheet metal solidworks.

When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. Introduction to solidworks sheet metal for technology page 10 shaping of holder create a sketch on the top face of the base flange as shown the circle should have its centre coincident with the existing hole and tangential to the edge.

In this tutorial video we will learn how to create a bracket with the help of sheet metal commands like base flange sketched bend and sheet metal gusset. Please subscribe our channel for mo. 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. To open this dialog box.

Creating sheet metal parts with cylindrical faces. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. Drawings of sheet metal parts. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends.

Click view hide show sketches. Adding walls to sheet metal parts. You can adjust the size of the drawing view under scale by selecting use custom scale and typing a value. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing.

Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. In this tutorial video we will learn how to sketch sheet metal drawings in solidworks with the help of sheet metal tools. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part.

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