Solidworks Sheet Metal Curved Bend

If you cannot find the sheetmetal tool in you main tool menu you can right click on main menu tab and check sheetmetal option.

Solidworks sheet metal curved bend.

Here we will learn how to use sketched bend command in solidworks sheet metal and create a bend at any part of plan surface at any angle and dimension. To view this part in flatten form click sheetmetal flatten. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Look at part tree. A quick tour and introduction using the solidworks sheet metal sketch bend feature. Under bend edges select the model edges that will form bends.

For a more discrete approach to making sheet metal from solid bodies you can use the rip and insert bends tools. Solidworks sheet metal as well as any other cad sheet metal applicaiton is actually pretty simple and straight forward. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

This solidworks tutorial is show you how to bend a part with sketched bend in sheet metal features check it out. The combination of these two tools make up the core functionality of the convert to sheet metal tool and focus on the edge connections between faces in the solid body. You know the basic try model this bracket. Click sketched bend on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal sketched bend.

Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. Click a bend position of bend centerline material inside material outside or bend outside.