Bend Flat Sheet Metal Solidworks

Under bend edges select the model edges that will form bends.

Bend flat sheet metal solidworks.

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Solidworks welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation accuracy and thoroughness of the documentation. Sketch on sheet metal face. Solidworks how to create a simple sheet metal part in solidworks.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. This file sets the format of the bend line notes.

Select process bends and all of the features after it. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten. Click sheetmetal insert bends click flat face as reference when it flatten. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready.

You can add bend lines to a flat face of a sheet metal part with a sketched bend feature. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Get serious about your career and buy a course from us. This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Sheet metal bend line notes is a text file located in install dir lang language bendnoteformat txt. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. You can control the precision for sheet metal bend line notes.

Look at part tree. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.