Drawing Sheet Metal Solidworks

With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal.

Drawing sheet metal solidworks. In this tutorial video we will learn how to sketch sheet metal drawings in solidworks with the help of sheet metal tools. Introduction to solidworks sheet metal for technology page 10 shaping of holder create a sketch on the top face of the base flange as shown the circle should have its centre coincident with the existing hole and tangential to the edge. Creating drawings of flat patterns. Please subscribe our channel for mo.

The lines should start coincident with the edge and be have an auto tangent relation to the circle. You can adjust the size of the drawing view under scale by selecting use custom scale and typing a value. You can sketch an ellipse and a create sheet metal part that has elliptical bends. Creating sheet metal parts with cylindrical faces.

In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. Adding walls to sheet metal parts. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Drawings of sheet metal parts. To open this dialog box. Click view hide show sketches.

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 might also like. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet.

In this tutorial video we will learn how to create a bracket with the help of sheet metal commands like base flange sketched bend and sheet metal gusset. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.