Drawing Sheet Metal Parts In Solidworks

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Drawing sheet metal parts in solidworks.

Multibody sheet metal parts. From the view palette drag the flat pattern. Drawings of sheet metal parts when you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. Adding walls to sheet metal parts.

Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part. Multibody sheet metal parts can consist of multiple sheet metal bodies or a combination of sheet metal and other bodies such as weldment bodies. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. You might also like. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs. To create a drawing of a flat pattern.

Drawings of sheet metal parts. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for.

With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

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. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.