Convert Boss Extrude To Sheet Metal

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Convert boss extrude to sheet metal.

An extruded boss base feature will allow you to take a 2d sketch and add thickness to it in the third dimension. This is why you will often find that people will create a very small flat section using a boss extrude to create a flat section at the end. Extrude boss base feature is mainly located in features command manager or insert menu. To create a part of uniform thickness and convert it to sheet metal.

Shell the block to 1mm so the part is of uniform thickness. Using the extrude boss feature you create 3d models like block cube cylinder 3d polygon 3d elliptical shapes etc. This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal. Create a block with the extruded boss base tool.

The extruded boss base feature can be found on the features tab in the command manager interface as shown in figure 1. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Showing the results of convert entities tool and extrude boss command. Select both these circles.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Make the block 50mm on all sides. In today s blog we will review and break down some of the great tools available in each section of the extrude command. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. For more information about solid. That means if you have closed contour sketch drawing then you can add materials to that contour and convert it into 3d model. Under sheet metal parameters.

In faces to remove select the faces as shown. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. You can also go to the toolbar and click insert boss base extrude to pull up the boss extrude feature menu as well. Showing the final results.

Make it normal and choose the convert entities. Every few releases this feature gets some terrific functionality added to it. Extrude these circles by selecting extrude boss tool.