How To Activate Sheet Metal In Solidworks

In this tutorial video we will learn how to create a bracket with the help of sheet metal commands like base flange sketched bend and sheet metal gusset.

How to activate sheet metal in solidworks. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components. Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch. 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. Solidworks sheet metal tutorial.

You can create sheet metal gussets with specific indents that go across bends. Insert bends allows you to convert a shelled part to a sheet metal part. A base flange is the first feature in a new sheet metal part. Screen updates like once in a second even if i have empty part.

The depth of a tab feature is automatically set to the thickness of the sheet metal part. Adding sheet metal gussets. When i try to work with sheet metal parts and activate the sheet metal tab the solidworks starts to jerk and work slowly. Once i activate some other tab features sketch weldments solid works goes back to normal.

First create a new part.