Rolling Sheet Metal Solidworks

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Rolling sheet metal solidworks.

Exercise 23 cylindrical sheet metal parts linear sketch patterns. You might also like. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder.

First phase in creating a rolled sheet metal component within solidworks once the sketches are complete it is time to use the sheet metal lofted bend tool. Under sheet metal parameters. 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 cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

This will create a lofted section from your two projected sketches. Sheet metal design is based on a press brake operation not a rolling operation. In your case it would be a 359 9 degree bend. You can roll in sheet metal but you need to start with a small flat then add the flange.

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Starting with the flat and then forming with the rolled and flat associative is hard to do.