Dimensioning Sheet Metal Parts Solidworks

The sheet metal tool allows you to quickly create sheet metal part designs using a simple design process all helping to save time and development costs.

Dimensioning sheet metal parts solidworks.

Check override default parameters if you wish to adjust. How to mirror parts. Sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design. Russell everard 1 aug 2017 06 30 pm.

Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components. How to model complex sheet metal parts in solidworks.

Sheet metal gauge bend table. Add a dimension to set the depth of your profile in this case 10mm. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. Creating sheet metal flat pattern configurations.

Select your sketch in the feature tree then in the command manager select the base flange function from the sheet metal tab. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Sheet metal options vary depending on whether you are working with a part assembly or drawing. In this tutorial video we will learn how to sketch sheet metal drawings in solidworks with the help of sheet metal tools.

Search drawings of sheet metal parts in the solidworks knowledge base. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Please subscribe our channel for mo.

You can create a configuration in a sheet metal part that shows the flattened part. To create a drawing of a flat pattern. You can design a sheet metal part on its own without any references to the parts it will enclose you can design the part in the context of an assembly that contains the enclosed components or you can design the part within another part document in a multibody environment. Creating drawings of flat patterns.