Using the merge result option when adding a base flange that overlaps the profiles of multiple bodies with coplanar faces.
Combine sheet metal parts solidworks.
Final part was sectioned to view internal geometry.
Two methods are to save your assembly as a part file or to use the insert part command to combine parts into one file.
You can create a configuration in a sheet metal part that shows the flattened part.
Combining parts within solidworks is a fairly simple process.
Click edge flange sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal edge flange.
Sheet metal gauge bend table.
Sheet metal gauge bend tables store properties for a designated material.
This is a fast and easy way to.
The first saving an assembly as a part replaces the parts with surfaces that represent the bodies within an assembly eliminating any feature history.
An easy way to join sheet metal parts together for welding remaining presision without use of jig.
Using the up to edge and merge option when inserting an edge flange between two bodies with parallel linear edges.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
Solidworks allows us to have multiple sheet metal parts combined in a single part which is making design changes faster and easier as well as improving manufacturability with solidworks we can create and combine sheet metal parts of different thicknesses and control each bend radius from the central part.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
All parts of this console is joined this way i an multibody part.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
Using sheet metal bend parameters search sheet metal in the solidworks knowledge base.
Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part.
To merge sheet metal bodies by inserting an edge flange.
Creating sheet metal flat pattern configurations.
This greatly benefits the early steps of designing molds from already created parts.
The subtract option in the combine tool will remove material from a solid body based on the geometry of one or more bodies.
In this part the extrusion has been made transparent for the sake of clarity.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.