Solidworks Sheet Metal Bent Tab

The faces can be planar or cylindrical but the edges and faces do not have to touch.

Solidworks sheet metal bent tab.

In a part click tab and slot sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal tab and slot. The sketch can be a single closed multiple closed or multiple enclosed profile. Create a sketch on a plane or planar face that meets the sheet metal tab requirements. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten.

Properties of tab sketches include. Instruction on creating a k factor table this is not documented by solidworks is also included. The tab is added to the sheet metal part. In the propertymanager specify options.

You know the basic try model. Course 1 guides you step by step through the basics of part creation into complex features of sheet metal design. The illustration shows a single tab feature that adds two tabs to the sheet metal part. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok.

Step 6 to bend the sheet metal part sketch lines on the part as shown in the picture. The depth of a tab feature is automatically set to the thickness of the sheet metal part. Learn how to use solidworks and its sheet metal tools from experts in the sheet metal industry. The direction of the depth automatically coincides with the sheet metal part to prevent a disjoint body.

The sketch can be a single closed multiple closed or multiple enclosed profile. Click base flange tab on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal base flange. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready. The sketch must be on a plane or planar face that is perpendicular to the direction of thickness of the sheet metal part.

If you cannot find the sheetmetal tool in you main tool menu you can right click on main menu tab and check sheetmetal option. You can edit the sketch. In the graphics area select an edge for the tabs and a corresponding face for the slots. The tab s depth and direction are automatically set to match the parameters of the base flange feature.

Unfolding shows you how to set up and use the bend tables in solidworks as well as the material types and gauge tables sheet metal thickness. To create a tab feature in a sheet metal part. Click base flange tab on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal base flange. The tab is added to the sheet metal part.

Solidworks for the sheet metal guy course 3. From the beginning sheet metal parts are designed with manufacturing in mind.