Drawing Sheet Metal Parts In Solidworks

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Drawing sheet metal parts in solidworks.

Adding walls to sheet metal parts. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. Click view hide show sketches. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Drawings of sheet metal parts. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part.

With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. From the view palette drag the flat pattern. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

Multibody sheet metal parts. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. You might also like. However in some circumstances when the design requires certain types of geometry you can use non sheet metal feature tools then insert bends or convert the part to sheet metal.

You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends. To create a drawing of a flat pattern. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. Drawings of sheet metal parts when you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

Multibody sheet metal parts can consist of multiple sheet metal bodies or a combination of sheet metal and other bodies such as weldment bodies. Each body has its own sheet metal and material definition flat pattern and custom properties.