Any help would be appreciated.
How to make a sheet metal cylinder in solidworks.
The cylinder is now a sheet metal part.
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I can t figure out how to do this.
Sheet metal cylinder with overlap for welding.
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.
As you would expect there are several ways to accomplish this in solidworks.
Here we have a solid body that i would like to convert into a sheet metal box then get the flat pattern to make it.
There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.
Today we are going to look at creating a slot in a sheet metal cylinder.
If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal.
In particular they have made creating complex sheet metal parts even easier.
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.
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Sketch an open contour arc.
Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet.
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.
I figure this should be an easy thing to do in solidworks but i have little experience with the sheet metal portion and cannot figure it out.
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.
Click convert to sheet metal 3.
To create a sheet metal part with cylindrical faces.
There are some tips and tricks included.
Hi guys how to draw this part.
Make sure to grab a note pad and get ready for some quick modeling.
