Convert To Sheet Metal Solidworks 2016

If an edge already has a fillet applied the radius of the fillet is used as the bend radius for the new sheet metal part.

Convert to sheet metal solidworks 2016.

How to convert 3d part into sheet metal in solidworks with the help of convert to sheet metal tools. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Create new bodies in an existing sheet metal part using base flange convert to sheet metal insert bends and lofted bend commands.

Under sheet metal parameters. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. On this snippet from the march 2016 episode of straight from support solidworks applications engineer heather dawe explains the differences between the convert to sheet metal and insert. The software automatically selects the edges on which rips are applied.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Please subscribe our channel for more videos and project.

Click convert to sheet metal 3. If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal. Split a single sheet metal part into multiple bodies. Here we have a solid body that i would like to convert into a sheet metal box then get the flat pattern to make it.