Bend Flat Sheet Metal Solidworks

Solidworks how to create a simple sheet metal part in solidworks.

Bend flat sheet metal solidworks. Look at part tree. You can add bend lines to a flat face of a sheet metal part with a sketched bend feature. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress.

To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten. You can control the precision for sheet metal bend line notes. Sketch on sheet metal face. This solidworks tutorial is show you how to bend a part with sketched bend in sheet metal features check it out.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Get serious about your career and buy a course from us. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Select process bends and all of the features after it. This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features.

Solidworks welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation accuracy and thoroughness of the documentation. Under bend edges select the model edges that will form bends. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Sheet metal bend line notes is a text file located in install dir lang language bendnoteformat txt.

Click sheetmetal insert bends click flat face as reference when it flatten. In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following.