Solidworks Sheet Metal Letters

This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal.

Solidworks sheet metal letters.

Sheet metal part are created in the 3d formed state and manufactured in the 2d flat state. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. By cutting through the material you lose letters that create closed loops like o b 9 4 etc. April 12 2015 6 45 pm.

This exercise provide step by step instructions for students to explore sheet metal functionality. As you select the letters and dividers the notes and lines appear in delete list. I always draw my letters by hand and just now i saw that is so simple to do it. In this tutorial i will show you how can create and extrude a text in solidworks.

We use our laser but do not cut through the material we only etch the part numbers into the surface 010 deep. 4 replies daen hendrickson jun 7 2012 1 12 pm. To remove the existing zone labels and dividers on the first page of the propertymanager select the zone letters and zone dividers on the sheet to delete. Is there a text font that i can use for sheet metal that when lasered it won t cut away the center of some of the capital letters like a b d o etc.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Select units under unit system select ips inch pound second ok. Sheet metal solidworks 2016 tutorial for beginners how to create a curved sheet metal part and then cut lettering out of it. Follow simple steps to learn.

Under sheet metal parameters. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Most fonts work with this method perhaps that is something to consider. Contributed by mark eilers nebraska.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Click sketch in command manager click rectangle as you can see on upper right corner sketch icon appear indicate that you re on sketch mode. Click edit sheet format sheet format toolbar. Click option tools option select document properties tab.

Click new file new click part ok. You have to draw a part using the sheet metal features. My first thought is the sketch text functionality. Students work patterns forms and hems.

Click automatic border sheet format toolbar. Open a new part with model units set to millimeters go to.