How To Make A Sheet Metal Drawing In Solidworks

Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces.

How to make a sheet metal drawing in solidworks. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. You might also like. Ok lastly we want to make sure that our drawing template is linked to the sheet format. From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet.

So let me just save that on my desktop. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. To do that we ll just use a file save sheet format and this will save it in the type slddrt.

Open a new part. To create a sheet metal part from the flattened state. You do not have to dimension the part. From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. However in some circumstances when the design requires certain types of geometry you can use non sheet metal feature tools then insert bends or convert the part to sheet metal. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created. Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking and it can be cut and bent into a variety of shapes.

Alright so the last thing we want to do is save out our sheet format. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. Create a sketch as shown. Drawings of sheet metal parts can also contain views of the bent sheet metal part.