There may come a time when the product needs to be produced from round bar stock.
Round sheet metal solidworks.
Solidworks sheet metal allows you to quickly and easily design folded or flat parts but what about parts that don t have simple straight bends.
This allows the manufacturing entity to have a flat pattern drawing derived from the created part.
Click insert bends sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal bends.
Depending on the type of profile you can use tools such as shell or extruded boss base to create thin features.
This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder.
Sketch a closed or open profile.
When you need to create large diameter round parts sheet metal may not be the first tool you d consider but it a great tool for this application.
There are some tips and tricks included.
When creating a sheet metal part in solidworks one of the key features is the capability to flatten the model into a sheet so it can be manufactured.
To create a sheet metal part with round bends.
There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.
Exercise 23 cylindrical sheet metal parts linear sketch patterns.
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.
Create a thin feature part.
As designs get more complex and start to violate the conditions and requirements for you to use certain features you may need to switch to a few additional techniques that allow you to create flat patterns from a wide variety of shapes.
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