If your design can tolerate these variances this is certainly a good reason to use sheetmetal for parts that are not simply cubical.
Thicken a sheet metal part solidworks.
The overall size is a little off from the sketch and this is due to the difference in thicknesses.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
Add bends to part to convert part to sheet metal.
In the last few years he moved to ts.
Examine the preview and select the side of the surface you want to thicken.
The direction for thicken or thicken cut can be a linear sketch entity two vertices or sketch points cylindrical or conical faces reference planes or axes and so on.
The following example shows the thicken both sides option.
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.
After the shell command you had a wall thickness of 0 80 yet the sheet metal was using 0 60.
There are several possible ways to go about it.
If you are cutting a multibody part set the feature scope options.
Under thicken parameters do the following.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
He started in r d working on many of the new functionalities developed at the time edrawings sheet metal weldments etc.
In the graphics area select a surface to thicken.
The real power of solidworks comes when you have to design bent sheet metal a task which looks simple but really isn t.
Use rip feature to create thin cuts.
Since you want to end up with sheet metal parts having a constant thickness you might want to delete all the faces except one side of the part turning your solid model into a surface model and then thicken the surface model.
The model isn t perfect aka the relief cuts but i think is closer to what you are looking for.
That means you need a contour of the sheet metal to be cut known as a flat pattern.
There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.
Insert bends to convert the model to a sheet metal part to flatten and further edit the part.
Import parts into solidworks then use the rip feature to create thin cuts in sheet metal geometry between adjacent flanges.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
Under sheet metal parameters.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
Import other file types into solidworks.
Before any bending you have to cut the sheet metal.
He began his career with solidworks over 15 years ago.
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