Click on the sheet.
Make sheet metal cylinder solidworks.
Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal.
Sketch an open contour arc.
Every year solidworks makes several enhancements to its software.
Make sure to grab a note pad and get ready for some quick modeling.
Today we are going to look at creating a slot in a sheet metal cylinder.
Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch.
Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design.
Click convert to sheet metal.
Flatten it by converting it using the insert bends command instead.
Add the cuts fold the part and use the same sketch to cut the extrusion off.
Single open contours can be used for extrudes revolves sections paths.
Consider a 3 foot diameter metal cylinder and how we could create this and create a flat patten using the sheet metal tools found in solidworks standard.
To create a sheet metal part with cylindrical faces.
Select the face and convert entities then extrude 0 01 any number really just less than the width of the seam.
In particular they have made creating complex sheet metal parts even easier.
Stop putting a small flat section on your part just to get it to convert to sheet metal.
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.
As you would expect there are several ways to accomplish this in solidworks.
Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components.
Just add a new sketch on one of the flat end faces of the cylinder.
Then select the fixed face of that extrusion to do your unfold.
First create a new part.
Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet.
There are some tips and tricks included.
Enter a default inside radius for the bends.
Solidworks sheet metal tutorial step 1.
Click base flange tab or insert sheet metal base flange.
If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal.