How To Do Sheet Metal Bends In Solidworks

Click front plane and click on sketch.

How to do sheet metal bends in solidworks.

We can see the results when we flatten the part and see all of the bend lines. Even if the inside bend is set at 001 radius the outside bend will be 001 material thickness. Click a bend position of bend centerline material inside material outside or bend outside. Hey i have attached a casing made out of sheet metal in this thread.

Set a value for bend angle and click reverse direction if necessary. In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten. All the best. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in.

All we had to do next was use convert to sheet metal and collect all bends to get a part that has incremental bends. Currently i have been manually sketching in the welding as i can not get the add weld feature in corners to work. 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. How to fill in sheet metal bends with weld solidworks 2014.

In the graphics area select a face that does not move as a result of the bend for fixed face. A sketched bend feature is commonly used with a tab feature to bend the tab. The bend line does not have to be the exact length of the faces you are bending. Click sketched bend on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal sketched bend.

To find out more about lofted bends you need to dig a little deeper into help and do a search for bent lofted bends unfortunately at this current time i am only able to find information about formed lofted bends in the solidworks training manual for sheet metal. Note we also removed the tab between the two ears after the conversion to sheet metal. The sheet metal module tries to emulate the real world conditions you cannot get a sharp edge on an outside bend in the real world. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

You can make the part using sheet metal but it will not give you a truly sharp outside corner.