How To Make A Sheet Metal Box In Solidworks

We will learn base flange edge flange corner hemming vent unfold fold extruded cut mirror simple hole flatten the parts how to save as 2d drawing f.

How to make a sheet metal box in solidworks.

Solidworks bend surfaces have to be either conical or cylindrical. Drawing a sheet metal box in solidworks 2010. Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part. Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends.

In the propertymanager under bend parameters. What you can t do is unfold it. To add the sides to the box the edge flange tool was used. You might also like.

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. Now if you make the box by creating an extruded rectangle add fillets to all of the edges and corners and then shell the thing outward you can make that into a sheetmetal and add louvers and ports and stuff like that. To create a sheet metal part with sharp bends. The fixed face remains in.

This was done by creating a sketch of the top view of the base of the part and setting the material thickness. When designing a sheet metal part as an individual part the first step is to create the base flange.