Bend Flat Sheet Metal Solidworks

A quick tour and introduction using the solidworks sheet metal sketch bend feature.

Bend flat sheet metal solidworks.

In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Sheet metal bend line notes is a text file located in install dir lang language bendnoteformat txt. This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry.

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Under bend edges select the model edges that will form bends. In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok.

You can add bend lines to a flat face of a sheet metal part with a sketched bend feature. You can control the precision for sheet metal bend line notes. This solidworks tutorial is show you how to bend a part with sketched bend in sheet metal features check it out. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready.

Look at part tree. Sketch on sheet metal face. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Click sheetmetal insert bends click flat face as reference when it flatten.

This file sets the format of the bend line notes. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress.