Convert To Sheet Metal

The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements.

Convert to sheet metal.

Enter the material thickness you want. If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal. Click on insert bends. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal.

Click convert to sheet metal 3. Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern. 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.

Let s start with the rules of sheet metal. Click on the rip icon. Create the solid part. The rip tool breaks a solid along a corner to make it suitable for adding bends.

You can convert to sheetmetal by defining driving surface. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal.

Select use gauge table. The conversion allows the user to work with the model using downstream sheet metal features. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. Set the thickness of the sheet metal part.

How to use the convert to sheet metal tool select a fixed face that the sheet metal will unfold about. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. You don t need to shell solid bodies or concern yourself with the thickness. Which face you choose is very important as it will have a.

Click on the convert to sheet metal icon in the sheet metal command manager. Open part operations convert to sheetmetal driving surface select any face to define driving surface for sheetmetal part ok. If the part which you are converting is of uniform thickness you need not to shell. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet 4.

The command has been improved to allow. This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal. For more information about solid.