Base Flange Sheet Metal

Smextrude creates sheet metal part from a planar polyline by extruding it orthogonally to the plane of the polyline.

Base flange sheet metal. When association between the fabrication process and cad matters the best place to start in a sheet metal design is with the base flange. Bends are added wherever appropriate and sheet metal specific features are added to the featuremanager design tree. Let s see how to create a sheet metal base flange. A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part.

When you add a base flange feature to a solidworks part the part is marked as a sheet metal part. Bends are added wherever appropriate and sheet metal specific features are added to the featuremanager design tree. The base flange feature is created from a sketch. Smconvert automatically recognizes flanges bends and lofted bends in a 3d solid.

Next we will activate the sheet metal tab of the command manager and click base flange tab tool which should be the first tool on the right not grayed out when beginning a part. This is solidworks tutorial for beginner explaining how to use base flange feature of solidworks sheet metal with a simple example. Pipe decor 3 4 in. Smdissolve removes sheet metal data from the selected faces or entities.

Happily perhaps the convert to sheet metal tool allows the cad jockey to employ any starting feature for modeling design intent or inspiration and end up with a base flange. Set your store to see local availability add to cart. Smflangeedge creates one or more flanges to a sheet metal part by pulling one or more edges of. When you add a base flange feature to a solidworks part the part is marked as a sheet metal part.

This is basic and very fi. Up middle or down. A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part. Use boundary detection for more complex 2d contour boundary selection.

First you will need a 2d profile and then use the flange base tool.