SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Tips and Tricks from Javelin’s Certified Experts
TriMech Tips & Tricks: SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Tools
Whether you’ve never used SOLIDWORKS sheet metal tools or if you’re a Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional sheet metal user, this webinar is for you. We will 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…
If you work with SOLIDWORKS on sheet metal parts with many bends, then you will find that performance is faster in SOLIDWORKS 2021. The time to flatten complex sheet metal bodies containing many bends has been dramatically reduced in SOLDIWORKS 2021. After creating this single-body part containing 77 bends, I found the time to flatten…
Getting the perfect fitment with sheet metal could make you look like a king or queen among designers and friends with the welder/fitters. They shall dance and sing to the all Supreme of sheet metal miters…. Although SOLIDWORKS Miter (mitre) Flange is a command that doesn’t seem hard, there are some hidden challenges which I…
What if you receive an imported sheet metal model with weird abnormalities, like jagged edges or crazy surface shapes? Maybe it’s not even a solid, due to these issues. I’ve seen a few such models while working in the sheet metal industry, where it was so “not right” that it defies trying to put into…
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal tools provide the ability to obtain the flat shape from a bent part. The flat length of each bend is based on defined parameters. This can be defined with K-factors, Bend Allowance or Bend Deduction. For more information on Sheet Metal calculations, check out the following articles: What Are Bend Allowance, Bend…
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