sheet metal
Using SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal for Cardboard Packaging Design
In thig blog, you will learn how to use SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal for Cardboard Packaging Design.
... ContinuedHow Much Is It? When Can I Get It?
If you are part of a design team, you have parts that need to be manufactured. Sometimes you just don’t know how much a part will cost or the time to manufacture, Rapid Sheet Metal has produced a free Add
... ContinuedSolidWorks – Helping Students with the Fundamentals of CAD and Simulation
How do you prepare your students to work for talented SolidWorks customers, like Franck Muller Watchland? You need to start with the fundamentals. My colleagues from the SolidWorks Web Team put together a series of 200 videos to help our
... ContinuedUsing SolidWorks Costing for Formula SAE and other Design Presentations
Check out this video showing how you can use SolidWorks Costing to obtain an estimate on how much a sheet metal or milled part will cost. This tool is very useful when creating costing reports needed for such competitions
... ContinuedPaper Airplane in SolidWorks
For this post I created a paper airplane using the sheet metal tools in SolidWorks. These tools allowed me to create all the folds that I would use if I were to create the airplane from an actual piece of
... ContinuedTake-Out Food Box in SolidWorks
For this post, I decided to create something that we all have most likely seen at some point in our lives, a take-out food box. I created it using sheet metal tools as I treated the sheet metal like paper.
... ContinuedSheet Metal Joist Hanger
For this post I decided to make a joist hanger that is used in building things such as decks. I made this part using the sheet metal tools. The part was started by using a base flange which was U
... ContinuedSolidWorks Sheet Metal Rocket Student Project
The SolidWorks sheet metal tools was one of my favoirte areas to explore with my students. There was such a look of amazement between the formed and flat states. Although my school did not have any sheet metal forming or braking equipment, I had my
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