In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten.
Solidworks sheet metal bend less than 90.
I have been working on a large piece of aluminium sheet metal and i was wondering if it is possible to bend like this.
The unit is in mm and it is 2mm thick aluminium.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
To use something other than the default bend allowance select custom bend allowance and set a bend allowance type and value.
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Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
To use something other than the default bend radius clear use default radius and use gauge table if a sheet metal gauge table has been selected for the part and set bend radius.
Click front plane and click on sketch.
Solidworks tutorial sheet metal edge flange.
You can type the tangent length without using additional calculations.
We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange sketched bend and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal.
Consider a sheet with a 20 mm thickness and a length of 300 mm as shown in figure 1.
The tangent bend option is valid for bends that are greater than 90ยบ and lets you use the tangent length of a flange as the basis for the length calculation.
Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
I got a feeling that it won t be able to bend like this because of the interference but i am not sure exactly how the press machine works.
1 solidworks tutorial for be.
Under bend edges select the model edges that will form bends.