SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Tips and Tricks from Javelin’s Certified Experts
For SOLIDWORKS parts to meet the requirements to use Sheet Metal features they must follow three rules. Actually being made of metal isn’t one of them. They must be thin-walled parts with a uniform thickness, have bends at the corners, and be capable of being flattened. Dropping an anvil on the part doesn’t count for…
In this video and blog, we will dig into one of the most powerful tools in SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal that allows you to close corners. What do Advanced Surface Modeling and Sheet Metal have in common? For many of my clients – a lot! A couple of months ago I delivered a Training Assessment service…
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Tutorial: Convert a Surface Model into a Sheet Metal Part
SOLIDWORKS has a plethora of tools right at your fingertips. Sometimes, when it comes to modeling surface metal, we need to get creative with how to generate unique parts. Let us help you discover the array of surfacing options available in the software with this SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal tutorial video: Featured in this SOLIDWORKS sheet…
In this video, we’ll show you how to use the Insert Bends command to tackle three common use cases for designing and flattening a cone or rolled cylinder in SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal. Existing Hollow Cylinder If we already have an existing hollow cylinder, we need to add a razor thin cut along the length of…
Whether you’ve never used SOLIDWORKS sheet metal tools or if you’re a Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional sheet metal user, this on-demand webinar is for you. We cover some useful tips for best practices and tricks to save you time in your day-to-day work and can save you the time of looking through article after article for…
Create Production-Ready Sheet Metal Design with a Powerful, Browser-Based Creator
Build components, assemblies and enclosures with an intuitive, browser-based solution that offers associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities. Its specialized 3D sheet metal design environment helps you streamline how you create, validate and manage designs. Learn more about SOLIDWORKS 3D SheetMetal Creator in the video below: Advantages of SOLIDWORKS 3D SheetMetal Creator SOLIDWORKS 3D SheetMetal…
Want to sharpen your Sheet Metal skills? This presentation from a SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Pro offers some of the greatest tips, tricks, and best practices to make you more efficient and help get your Sheet Metal jobs done faster. There is nothing more old school than Insert Bends. But did you know that Insert Bends…
When manufacturing sheet metal parts from a SOLIDWORKS model and drawing, how can we ensure that raised features (also commonly referred to as formed features) will protrude from the correct side/face of the part? This article guides you through how to control and communicate, in SOLIDWORKS, which side of the flattened part is up during…
Colour me surprised when I read in the SOLIDWORKS 2021 What’s New Manual that we can now place Edge Flanges on circular or nonlinear edges. In the previous version this is what it looked like when we tried to select a circular edge. There was just no response and no highlighting. What we had to…
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