Solidworks Sheet Metal Tab And Slot

Let s have a look at how easy it to produce the tabs and slots in solidworks 2018.

Solidworks sheet metal tab and slot.

Lists the selections that define each tab and slot feature. This eliminates the need for additional features as you get the job done the first time. In the propertymanager specify options. Using nonlinear edges for tab and slot.

In the graphics area select an edge for the tabs and a corresponding face for the slots. In a part click tab and slot sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal tab and slot. To get a full understanding of the tab and slot feature take a look at this video where mr sheet metal falls in love. The tab and slot feature creates tabs on one body and slots holes on another body to interlock the two bodies.

You can specify how the tabs and slots look and how they are distributed along the selected entities. As you can see there is an easy to follow propertymanager for the tab and slot feature also showing you a full preview. In a part click tab and slot sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal tab and slot. Luckily solidworks listened to these user demands and with the release of solidworks 2019 they introduced a lot of new functionality for sheet metal tab and slot.

This does not create a negative offset in cases of a single body tab and slot or if the resulting tab and slot bodies are merged. In solidworks 2018 you could only. A group is a selection of an edge and the corresponding face that belong to two identical bodies or components to define several tab and slot locations in one feature. In the tab and slot propertymanager under slot click slot length offset or slot width offset to set the values as negative.