Convert To Sheet Metal

How to use the convert to sheet metal tool select a fixed face that the sheet metal will unfold about.

Convert to sheet metal.

Convert to sheet metal. 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. Set the thickness of the sheet metal part. In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table.

The rip tool breaks a solid along a corner to make it suitable for adding bends. The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements. Click on the convert to sheet metal icon in the sheet metal command manager. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.

If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click 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. Click convert to sheet metal 3.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. If the part which you are converting is of uniform thickness you need not to shell. The command has been improved to allow. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part.

Which face you choose is very important as it will have a. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Click on insert bends. Create the solid part.

Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. 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. Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal.

Open part operations convert to sheetmetal driving surface select any face to define driving surface for sheetmetal part ok. Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet 4. The conversion allows the user to work with the model using downstream sheet metal features. Click on the rip icon.

Select use gauge table. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. You can convert to sheetmetal by defining driving surface.