Solidworks Sheet Metal Issues

These are some pretty common sheet metal issues.

Solidworks sheet metal issues.

There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. To hide the bend lines expand flat pattern1 right click bend lines and select hide. Wrong flat pattern in view palette. As shown in the figure below the flat pattern view is the same as the front view and shows the part in a bent state.

Please subscribe our channel for more. A spectacular feature with lots of potential but also very temperamental. To flatten the entire part if the flat pattern1 feature is present unsuppress flat pattern1 or click flatten on the sheet metal toolbar. Solidworks sheet metal solidworks tech tip article by alin vargatu cswe updated august 14 2012 if i were to compare the solidworks sheet metal module with an opera company and you the solidworks user with the director then the loft bend would be a wanna be diva.

You can design a sheet metal part on its own without any references to the parts it will enclose you can design the part in the context of an assembly that contains the enclosed components or you can design the part within another part document in a multibody environment. Click welded corner sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal welded corner and select one of the corner faces. You might also like. When the flat pattern drawing view of a solidworks sheet metal part displays the part in the bent condition this can indicate an issue with the suppression state of the flat pattern feature.

With the first image above usually one or the other of these situations will occur. 1 solidworks tutorial for be. The bend lines are shown by default when you unsuppress flat pattern1. You ll either end up with a flat view of your bent part or more commonly you ll wind up with a bent view of your flat pattern.

Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components.