Convert To Sheet Metal

Let s start with the rules of sheet metal.

Convert to sheet metal. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet 4. If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal. You can convert to sheetmetal by defining driving surface. Set the thickness of the sheet metal part.

Which face you choose is very important as it will have a. The rip tool breaks a solid along a corner to make it suitable for adding bends. Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal. This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal.

Enter the material thickness you want. Open part operations convert to sheetmetal driving surface select any face to define driving surface for sheetmetal part ok. Click on insert bends. The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements.

The command has been improved to allow. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. Click convert to sheet metal 3.

Click on the rip icon. Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. For more information about solid. The conversion allows the user to work with the model using downstream sheet metal features.

A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. Create the solid part. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern. Click on the convert to sheet metal icon in the sheet metal command manager.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Convert to sheet metal. In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.

Select use gauge table. Convert to sheet metal is a valuable command when importing models from other cad systems neutral file formats or something created in nx using traditional modelling techniques. How to use the convert to sheet metal tool select a fixed face that the sheet metal will unfold about.