It has a couple of special properties that are not found with other features. As much as any company in the cad industry, solidworks was inspired by the vision of a single individual, jon hirschtick. This allows you to dimension the bend line to other folded. The typical sheet metal manufacturer is not familiar with terms such as faces and extrusions. Solidworks files zipped files part, assembly, and drawing files used in tutorials and illustrations. The tutorials can be used with older versions of solidworks without any issues. Solidworks educational edition getting started assumes that you have used windows before and know basic windows skills, such as how to run programs, resize windows, and so on. Other sheet metal features, when added, will appear overhead even though they are. When you add a base flange feature to a solidworks part, the part is marked as a sheet metal part. Tutorial 1 solidworks user interface tutorial 2 introduction to solidworks tutorial 3 how to create simple box. You can create new sheet metal templates for use with the costing tool. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetalflatten. Solidworks educational edition getting started 11 1 basic functionality solidworks is supported under the microsoft windows graphical user interface.
The release of solidworks 2016 saw multiple improvements to sheet metal functions as well as new functionality being introduced. Quickly and costeffectively create a wide range of sheet metal part designs using a wide range of flexible tools to meet your specific needs. For example, if the price of steel increases, you can change the cost in the. It still folded even when origin is in flat pattern. Click sheetmetalinsert bends, click flat face as reference when it flatten. Introduction to solidworks sheet metal for technology page 5 about base flange a base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part. Lesson 1 introduction welcometoselfpacedtrainingforsolidedge. Solidworks 2009 10 choose ok flatpattern feature this is added below the base flange feature. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Welcome to cudacountrys solidworks 2015 rocket sheet metal tutorials. Solidworks sheet metal tutorials grabcad questions. Evaluation chapters of solidworks 2012 for designers textbook zipped pdf files. First of all create a new part and right click on the last tab and select sheet metal.
The base of the sheetmetal part has been generated. The following tutorials with the pdf icon are available for viewing. Course 1 guides you step by step through the basics of part creation into complex features of sheet metal design. Notice the new selections under new sheet metal bodies override default parameter. In preparation to teach this course i took the latest exams and made sure that all the course information was relevant, and focused on.
Bends are added wherever appropriate, and sheet metal specific features are. Throughout these lessons, we will be creating a sheet metal part for an electrical enclosure confined and driven by a design envelope along with various tools including the edge and miter flanges, bolt holes, a vent, and various other. How to create simple sheet metal bend solidworks tutorials. Learn how to use solidworks and its sheet metal tools from experts in the sheet metal industry. You can create compound bends in sheet metal parts using the swept flange tool. Have fun if you cannot find the sheetmetal tool in you main tool menu, you can right click. Hi, im gabriel corbett and welcome to the certified solidworks professional advanced sheet metal exam preparation course. Sheet metal teaches you how to build sheet metal parts using solidworks mechanical design automation software.
These include cuts in swept flanges, edge flanges and using flattened mass cuts in swept flanges in previous versions, solidworks was not capable of mapping any cuts. Parts, assembly, drawings, and sheet metal kindle edition by books, tutorial. The completion of the certified solidworks professional advanced sheet metal cswpasm exam shows that you have successfully demonstrated your ability to use solidworks sheet metal tools. Unlike other features, flatpattern will remain at the bottom of the tree. In this course, well go over all the requirements for the exam. From the beginning, sheet metal parts are designed with manufacturing in mind. Building standalone sheet metal parts, and converting conventional parts to sheet metal, including in assembly. If you try this tutorial and you lack some basic knowledge your first resource should be the help menu. You can add bend lines to the sheet metal part while the part is in its folded state with a sketched bend feature. In solidworks 2017, there is now a global setting that can control whether sheet metal bodies follow the parameters defined in the sheet metal folder in the featuretree you can find these new selects in toolsoptionsdocument propertiessheet metal. Lessons 1 and 2 of this tutorial cover the modeling of thinwalled parts. Employers can be confident that an individual with this certification understands the set of solidworks tools that aid in the design of sheet metal components.
The new sheet metal tutorials will help to bridge the gap between solid modeling cad and sheet metal terminology. Start a new inch part, right click on any toolbar and check the sheet metal tool for the sheetmetal toolbar to be available. Solidworks sheet metal enclosure part design pluralsight. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading solidworks 2016 learn by doingpart 1. The new solidworks 2006 has added several new features to improve the sheet metal part creation.
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