How To Curve Sheet Metal Solidworks

Set a value for bend angle and click reverse direction if necessary.

How to curve sheet metal solidworks.

Use the convert to sheet metal tool. Click sketched bend on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal sketched bend. Click a bend position of bend centerline material inside material outside or bend outside. The method you choose will depend on the state of the solid body and the features you want in the feature tree.

Discussion created by viktoras laptevas on nov 20 2019 latest reply on dec 3. Click the green tick. Click offset entities and click l sketch. To scale the curve you need to account for scaling in the equation.

To control the curve rotation you can drag the curve add relations and so on. Sheet metal solidworks 2016 tutorial for beginners how to create a curved sheet metal part and then cut lettering out of it. Dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in. Use line sketch l shape.

So my question is that how can this curved edge can be generated according to this sheet metal part. Once you have a solid body in the shape that you want there are a couple of ways to convert it into sheet metal. Use line sketch and. Click front plane and click on sketch.

The curve acts as any other rigid curve or block. Check override default parameters if you wish to adjust the thickness of your sheet metal part. How to create simple sheet metal bend. For instance in the example below you can multiply x and y by 10.

Click part ok. In the sheetmetal loft feature there is no center line or guided path option to generate a curved path. Anyway since you re an engineer in sheet metal fabrication. I don t know how to use solidworks.

One thing is that in the original part there is a curved edge of that cylindrical formed shape. In the graphics area select a face that does not move as a result of the bend for fixed face. Insert rips and bends into the part. Add a dimension to set the depth of your profile in this case 10mm.

Set offset distance as 0 1in.