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SOLIDWORKS 2018 Tab and Slot Feature
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on January 22, 2018
A costly part of manufacturing is creating the fixtures that are used to hold the parts in position during fabrication. That is why many designers are now turning to self-fixturing design technique to reduce the…
Why can’t I Insert Forming Tools into my SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal model?
By Mehdi Rezaei, CSWE on January 17, 2018
SOLIDWORKS Forming Tools are found in the Design Library and are used to form sheet metal parts. In the following image, you can see how a forming tool is dragged from the Design Library onto…
How to convert to a Normal Cut in SOLIDWORKS 2018
By Mehdi Rezaei, CSWE on January 3, 2018
When creating cut-extrudes on sheet metal models, it is recommended to choose the Normal Cut option under cut-extrude properties. What if a cut has already been made on a sheet metal and it is not…
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Sketch Transformations
By Scott Durksen, CSWE on June 28, 2017
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal includes a Sketch Transformation folder in the Flat Pattern feature when a sketch is added to a face that is not the fixed face (i.e. a face that moves when the piece…
Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor Tables in SOLIDWORKS
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on June 9, 2017
In this series of blog posts it was discussed what different terms like Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor mean and how we can calculate them for a specific sheet. You can read the previous…
Calculating Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction, and K-Factor
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on June 6, 2017
In my previous post I talked about K-Factor, Bend Allowance and Bend Deduction and what they mean in sheet metal design. Now let’s see how we can obtain these values for a specific sheet. As…
The SOLIDWORKS Vent Feature is not just for Sheet Metal
By Jim Peltier, CSWE on June 5, 2017
An interesting feature in the Sheet Metal tab is the SOLIDWORKS Vent feature. Using the Vent feature, you can create a cutout, along with ribs, spars, and a filled-in boundary with just a very simple sketch….
What Are Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor?
By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on June 1, 2017
In a series of posts we are going to review the most important sheet metal design terminology — Bend Allowance, Bend Deduction and K-Factor. In this post I will review what these terms mean and in the next…
Gain Productivity by using Sheet Metal in SOLIDWORKS
By Sam Sharkawi on May 23, 2017
By using the SOLIDWORKS sheet metal tools your productivity can be dramatically increased as well as be a cost effective solution to producing sheet metal models! With the sheet metal functionality you are able to: Create Base,…
Inserting a 3D Cross-Break in SOLIDWORKS
By Jim Peltier, CSWE on February 23, 2017
A question we sometimes get in the SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal course is how to insert a 3D cross-break. The functionality seems to be there in the SOLIDWORKS Cross-Break command on the Sheet Metal toolbar, but…
SOLIDWORKS 2017 Normal Cut Optimize Geometry for Sheet Metal
By Jamie Hill, CSWE/CSWE-S on January 1, 2017
SOLIDWORKS 2017 provides optimized cuts through complex sheet metal parts! Cuts through thick walled sheet metal could sometimes give unexpected results. But a new option to ‘Optimize Geometry’ helps avoid problematic shapes when cutting through angled…
SOLIDWORKS 2017 brings relief to your sheet metal three bend corners
By Chris Briand, CSWE on November 20, 2016
One of the common flange challenges that a sheet metal designer bumps into is the need to add a corner relief in their designs. In many cases this is where two bends come together, in…
SOLIDWORKS Simulation did not recognize my Sheet Metal part? [VIDEO]
By Siavash Khajehhasani on January 26, 2016
If SOLIDWORKS Simulation did not recognize sheet metal part when you created a simulation study then watch the video below to learn how to solve the issue. In the figure below, the created part seems to be…
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Rip Option Examples
By Sanja Srzic on October 16, 2015
The PropertyManager for the Convert to Sheet Metal command includes the options for Rip Edges Found (Read-Only) and Rip Sketches. Sometimes it may not be clear what or if anything needs to be selected in…
SOLIDWORKS 2016 Sheet Metal: Seeing Swept Flanges in a “Hole” new way
By Scott Ellery, CSWE on September 24, 2015
One of the best sheet metal enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 2016 is the ability to add Cut Features to a Swept Flange and have those features map correctly to the Flat Pattern. Although the Swept Flange tool is…
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