Sketch an open contour arc.
Make sheet metal cylinder solidworks.
There are some tips and tricks included.
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.
To create a sheet metal part with cylindrical faces.
Then select the fixed face of that extrusion to do your unfold.
Flatten it by converting it using the insert bends command instead.
Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch.
As you would expect there are several ways to accomplish this in solidworks.
First create a new part.
Enter the material thickness you want.
Every year solidworks makes several enhancements to its software.
The base flange propertymanager appears.
Enter a default inside radius for the bends.
The arc can also be tangent to a line.
Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design.
If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal.
Click on the sheet.
Today we are going to look at creating a slot in a sheet metal cylinder.
Single open contours can be used for extrudes revolves sections paths.
Stop putting a small flat section on your part just to get it to convert to sheet metal.
Click base flange tab or insert sheet metal base flange.
Select the face and convert entities then extrude 0 01 any number really just less than the width of the seam.
Add the cuts fold the part and use the same sketch to cut the extrusion off.
Consider a 3 foot diameter metal cylinder and how we could create this and create a flat patten using the sheet metal tools found in solidworks standard.
Solidworks sheet metal tutorial step 1.
Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal.
Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet.
Click convert to sheet metal.
Make sure to grab a note pad and get ready for some quick modeling.
