Closed Sheet Metal Box Design

Discussion in sheet metal started by no joke jan 6 2017.

Closed sheet metal box design. To make things easy for my students i designed our classroom box so it would be able to work on the size of a standard 8 5 x 11 piece of paper. Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. Best way to design a closed sheet metal cube. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box.

Hey for a little something i m working on i want to create a small probably around 40x40x40mm cube made from 1 5mm thick aluminum plates. In this tutorial video i will sketch power box chassis in solidworks with the help of sketch and sheet metal tools i hope you like it. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured.

Sheet metal boxes are two part enclosures made by cutting metal sheets and then bending the resulting parts using a press brake to form a box. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. From the list select sheet metal box. Enter the desired parameters and click ok.

In the workspace add desired custom features as needed.