Then select the fixed face of that extrusion to do your unfold.
Make sheet metal cylinder solidworks.
Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components.
There are some tips and tricks included.
The base flange propertymanager appears.
Flatten it by converting it using the insert bends command instead.
Sketch an open contour arc.
Consider a 3 foot diameter metal cylinder and how we could create this and create a flat patten using the sheet metal tools found in solidworks standard.
Click on the sheet.
Add the cuts fold the part and use the same sketch to cut the extrusion off.
Enter the material thickness you want.
Stop putting a small flat section on your part just to get it to convert to sheet metal.
Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet.
Make sure to grab a note pad and get ready for some quick modeling.
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 convert to sheet metal.
As you would expect there are several ways to accomplish this in solidworks.
The arc can also be tangent to a line.
Enter a default inside radius for the bends.
To create a sheet metal part with cylindrical faces.
Select the face and convert entities then extrude 0 01 any number really just less than the width of the seam.
Just add a new sketch on one of the flat end faces of the cylinder.
In particular they have made creating complex sheet metal parts even easier.
First create a new part.
Every year solidworks makes several enhancements to its software.
Today we are going to look at creating a slot in a sheet metal cylinder.
Click on the top plane and then create a new sketch.
Now sketch and use smart dimension to give a dimension to the design.
You can design a sheet metal part on its own without any references to the parts it will enclose you can design the part in the context of an assembly that contains the enclosed components or you can design the part within another part document in a multibody environment.
Right click on the toolbar and activate sheet metal.
