{"id":21787,"date":"2018-10-13T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=21787"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:28:42","slug":"importing-sheet-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2018\/10\/importing-sheet-metal.html","title":{"rendered":"Importing Sheet Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

SolidSolutions<\/a> has recently welcomed another 11 Technical Interns to the team, they are currently being put through a 12 week induction and as part of this they\u2019ll be blogging about what they’ve learned. Having recently sat on the SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal training course <\/a>we asked our Sheffield Trio \u2013 Will, Alex & Jordan \u2013 to explain how to turn imported files into fully functional SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s start with Alex\u2019s explanation of the Convert to Sheet Metal tool.<\/p>\n

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Convert to sheet metal<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cConvert to Sheet Metal\u201d allows the user to quickly convert parts into sheet metal models, from there a flat pattern can be automatically created. This is a useful tool if the initial part has been created using standard part modeling features such as extrudes and lofts.\u00a0The tool also works well on imported Sheet Metal files, to use it simply follow these steps.<\/p>\n

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  1. Define the desired thickness and bend radius either by selecting a gauge table or by entering it manually. In this example, I have used a sample table for steel and selected 14 gauge with a 2.54mm bend radius.<\/li>\n
  2. Select a fixed face, here I have selected the bottom face has been selected as the fixed entity. This decides which face the remaining faces are bent from.\"\"<\/li>\n
  3. Select required \u201cBend Edges\u201d to define the bends in the sheet metal part. SOLIDWORKS will then automatically select \u201cRip Edges\u201d which create cuts in the sheet metal body.\"\"<\/li>\n
  4. Due to the structure of this component it is impossible to bend the fourth edge to complete the shape, so we’ll need to use a \u201cRip Sketch\u201d. A “Rip Sketch” will cause a \u201cRip Edge\u201d to be added at a chosen location based on the geometry of the sketch.\"\"<\/li>\n
  5. Where two edges meet the gap and type of corner; Open Butt, Overlap, Underlap, can be selected for all or individually. For this example, I have selected an Open Butt corner type with a 1mm gap\"\"<\/li>\n
  6. The part is now converted to sheet metal and can be viewed as a folded or flattened part.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Want to know more?<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Visit the SolidSolutions blog<\/a> to view more methods for working with Sheet Metal parts from our new engineers Jordan and Will.<\/p>\n

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    Introduction SolidSolutions has recently welcomed another 11 Technical Interns to the team, they are currently being put through a 12 week induction and as part of this they\u2019ll be blogging about what they’ve learned. Having recently sat on the SOLIDWORKS<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":21792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[2495,44,889],"class_list":["post-21787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-tips-tricks","tag-learn","tag-sheet-metal","tag-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22016,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions\/22016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}