Sheet Metal Properties Solidworks

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Sheet metal properties solidworks.

You can design a sheet metal part on its own without any references to the parts it will enclose you can design the part in the context of an assembly that contains the enclosed components or you can design the part within another part document in a multibody environment. The following properties are calculated in sheet metal parts. You get the check boxes shown below. I have created flat bar weldments to make tracking lengths easier and sometimes i will substitute it for a sheet metal part to get bends and show flat patterns.

Click view hide show sketches. Without a macro is there a way to change the default properties sw creates for a sheet metal body. Web help content version. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following.

Shortest side of the bounding box. Bounding box length x bounding box width. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n.

Specify properties as described below and click ok. You can use custom properties like sw thickness sw length and sw width and enter your own prefix and suffix. Longest side of the bounding box. Use bounding box properties for body names.

I use a combination of weldments and sheet metal for a lot of structural work. In the drawing sheet right click the sheet icon in the featuremanager design tree any blank area of the drawing sheet or the sheet tab at the bottom of the drawing window and select properties. Right click bend lines and click show. The following properties are calculated in sheet metal parts.

Bounding box length longest side of the bounding box bounding box width shortest side of the bounding box sheet metal thickness bounding box area bounding box length x bounding box width bounding box area blank area of the flat pattern excluding the through cut outs cutting length outer. To report problems encountered with the web help interface and search contact your local support representative. According to this article in the solidworks what s new from 2018 you can customize the name of cut list bodies and sheet metal bodies.