Solidworks Wrap Sheet Metal

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Solidworks wrap sheet metal.

The wrap feature supports contour selection and sketch reuse. For wrap type click emboss. You can project a wrap feature onto multiple faces. For wrap method click spline surface.

The steps are as follows. To flatten the entire part if the flat pattern1 feature is present unsuppress flat pattern1 or click flatten on the sheet metal toolbar. Solidworks keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet. Under sheet metal parameters.

There are a total of six. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. You can flatten the bends in a sheet metal part in the following ways. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

Subscribe to our blog. Download cheat sheet here. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. The final step is to choose additional faces for the decal to wrap around.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Search flattening sheet metal bends in the solidworks knowledge base. 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. Click wrap features toolbar or insert features wrap.

The sketch plane must be tangent to the face allowing the face normal and the sketch. When the mapping tab is selected click in the selected geometry box. In the graphics area select the solidworks sketch.