Solidworks Sheet Metal Insert Into New Part Flatten

Click sheetmetal insert bends click flat face as reference when it flatten.

Solidworks sheet metal insert into new part flatten.

Right click on the new drawing view and pick properties. This has created 3 new features in your feature design tree. When flat pattern1 is suppressed all features that you add to the part automatically appear before this feature in the featuremanager design tree. Here is the saved sheet metal body.

A convert solid folder which contains the bends used for this part. Creating a multi body sheet metal part the bodies can be flatten. Designers are not limited to only one sheet metal part. But the sheet metal blanks will be laser water jetted by a vendor.

Here is a frame weldment with sheet metal bodies. To understand this better let s go through the steps of what is suppose to happen when you create a new solidworks sheet metal flattened view. Convert to sheet metal with split line to control one flange. The sheet metal bodies are saved out to separate files.

Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready. A flat pattern feature that you can unsuppress to view your flat pattern at any time. New features in folded part. All of this while keeping the integrity of the flat patte.

New features in flattened part. When done click on the green checkmark ok to accept. The frame will be built in house. If however a body is insert into new part the functionality of flattening the part is lost.

It was converted to sheet metal. Insert the flat pattern view. Create a drawing from a solidworks sheet metal part document. I placed an insert bends feature after plane5 this converts it to a sheet metal type of part and a flatten feature at the end and that gets you close to where you want to go i think.

You flatten the entire sheet metal part by unsuppressing flat pattern1 to add features to the flattened sheet metal part you must first unsuppress flat pattern1. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. As shown in figure 4 the checkbox for keep body has been enabled in order to reuse the same body in case the bottom and back side need to be utilized for a multibody sheet metal design. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten.

Learn how to create a fabricated section of pipe flatten it using insert bends and insert a cope. Next holes were filled. A sheet metal folder which contains your sheet metal parameters. The problem is what you ve created isn t actually considered a sheet metal part yet by solidworks.