Solidworks Sheet Metal Curved Bend

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Solidworks sheet metal curved bend. Solidworks how to create a simple sheet metal part in solidworks. If you cannot find the sheetmetal tool in you main tool menu you can right click on main menu tab and check sheetmetal option. For a more discrete approach to making sheet metal from solid bodies you can use the rip and insert bends tools. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Click a bend position of bend centerline material inside material outside or bend outside. There are planar portions and bent portions in a sheet metal part and for the bent portions we apply simple math in order to deteremine the developed length. This solidworks tutorial is show you how to bend a part with sketched bend in sheet metal features check it out.

The combination of these two tools make up the core functionality of the convert to sheet metal tool and focus on the edge connections between faces in the solid body. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten. Click sketched bend on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal sketched bend.

Solidworks sheet metal as well as any other cad sheet metal applicaiton is actually pretty simple and straight forward. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. You know the basic try model this bracket. Under bend edges select the model edges that will form bends.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready.